As used in this title: Commissioner means the commissioner of labor. Deputy commissioner means the several deputy commissioners of labor except in chapter 15 of this title ( 34:15-1 et seq.),...
The department of labor, hereinafter in this title referred to as the department , organized by an act entitled An act to reorganize the department of labor; to provide for the execution of its...
The department shall have its principal office in Trenton. ...
The commissioner shall be a citizen and resident of this state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. He shall hold his office for the term of five years and...
The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department. All powers and duties vested in and devolved upon the commissioner or the department shall be exercised and...
As used in this act: Annual mean population means for each resort municipality the following: 12P + 3SP AMP =................. 12 where AMP equals Annual Mean Population P equals Population SP...
a. The seasonal population of each resort municipality shall be estimated by the Department of Labor by taking into account such factors as it deems advisable and appropriate to determine such...
The Commissioner of Labor may adopt and promulgate, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of...
Inspectors shall be classified into four grades which shall be designated respectively first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade. Inspectors of each grade shall receive such...
Inspectors shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall direct. ...
The commissioner shall be the appointing authority of the department and shall in accordance with the civil service laws employ such inspectors, clerks, stenographers and other personnel as he may...
The commissioner may employ additional inspectors, expert investigators or advisers for such period as he shall consider necessary and at such compensation as shall be fixed by him or otherwise...
Deputy commissioners, bureau heads and inspectors of the department shall, in addition to the annual salaries received by them, receive the necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance...
The deputy commissioners, chief inspectors and inspectors shall be provided with certificates of authority by the secretary of state, which shall be exhibited on demand by the person in charge of...
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this title. ...
No inspector shall engage in any business, occupation or employment during his term of office that will in any way interfere with or prevent his full and faithful performance of his duties. Each...
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter and inspect all places and establishments regulated or affected by this title and each...
No person shall obstruct, hinder or delay, or interfere with, by force or otherwise, the performance of any duty under the provisions of this title by the commissioner or by any of the deputy...
Each inspector shall note in writing the names of minors discharged from any employment and within twenty-four hours thereafter shall send or deliver a list of such minors with their names in...
The commissioner shall, on or before October thirty-first in each year, make report to the governor of the work of the department. ...
The commissioner may make and publish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as he shall deem necessary to enforce the provisions of this title. Whenever any condition is found to exist...
The commissioner may charge a fee of not less than $ 15.00 nor more than $ 1,000.00 for issuing a certificate of approval of any plans or specifications, or both, required by law or regulation of...
The commissioner may charge a reasonable fee for blue prints, literature and publications issued by the department. ...
Fees and moneys collected by the commissioner under the provisions of this title shall be paid by him to the state treasurer. ...
The examining board of the mechanical inspection bureau shall administer the licensing of engineers and firemen and the inspection of boilers, pressure vessels and refrigeration plants. The...
The commissioner shall prescribe the duties of and adopt all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws for the operation of the mechanical inspection bureau not inconsistent with law, and shall...
Each member of the mechanical inspection bureau shall be paid his necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty. ...
The Governor shall appoint 6 citizens of this State, 2 of whom shall be professional engineers licensed by this State, and who shall represent the following interests: one manufacturer of boilers,...
The bureau of statistics and records shall collect, classify and report to the legislature, on or before the last day of October in each year, statistical details relating to labor in the state...
The information secured shall be presented in the annual report by figures only; the names of persons, firms or corporations shall in no case be printed and the business of manufacturers,...
Any owner, operator, lessee, manager or superintendent of an establishment or industry in which labor is employed within this state, who willfully neglects or refuses to make return or report as...
The bureau of industrial statistics and records shall publish and issue from time to time bulletins and pamphlets pertaining to its work and shall perform such other duties as the commissioner...
The commissioner shall collect and disseminate all data as to unemployment and places offering employment in the manner most likely to enable the unemployed to secure employment. ...
The bureau of employment and bureaus co-operating in carrying out the provisions of sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-64, 34:1-66 to 34:1-69 of this title, shall keep a record of all labor disturbances or...
As used in this title: Commissioner means the commissioner of labor. Deputy commissioner means the several deputy commissioners of labor except in chapter 15 of this title ( 34:15-1 et seq.),...
The department of labor, hereinafter in this title referred to as the department , organized by an act entitled An act to reorganize the department of labor; to provide for the execution of its...
The department shall have its principal office in Trenton. ...
The commissioner shall be a citizen and resident of this state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. He shall hold his office for the term of five years and...
The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department. All powers and duties vested in and devolved upon the commissioner or the department shall be exercised and...
The Department of Labor shall annually determine which municipalities qualify as resort municipalities and determine and certify the annual mean population of resort municipalities. This...
As used in this act: Annual mean population means for each resort municipality the following: 12P + 3SP AMP =................. 12 where AMP equals Annual Mean Population P equals Population SP...
a. The seasonal population of each resort municipality shall be estimated by the Department of Labor by taking into account such factors as it deems advisable and appropriate to determine such...
The Commissioner of Labor may adopt and promulgate, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of...
The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this title and exercise supervision and control over the deputy commissioners, bureau chiefs and all inspectors, and shall, as often as is...
Inspectors shall be classified into four grades which shall be designated respectively first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade. Inspectors of each grade shall receive such...
Inspectors shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall direct. ...
The commissioner shall be the appointing authority of the department and shall in accordance with the civil service laws employ such inspectors, clerks, stenographers and other personnel as he may...
The deputy commissioners, chief inspectors and inspectors shall be provided with certificates of authority by the secretary of state, which shall be exhibited on demand by the person in charge of...
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this title. ...
No inspector shall engage in any business, occupation or employment during his term of office that will in any way interfere with or prevent his full and faithful performance of his duties. Each...
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter and inspect all places and establishments regulated or affected by this title and each...
No person shall obstruct, hinder or delay, or interfere with, by force or otherwise, the performance of any duty under the provisions of this title by the commissioner or by any of the deputy...
Each inspector shall note in writing the names of minors discharged from any employment and within twenty-four hours thereafter shall send or deliver a list of such minors with their names in...
The commissioner shall prosecute violations of the provisions of this title in any court of competent jurisdiction. ...
The commissioner shall, on or before October thirty-first in each year, make report to the governor of the work of the department. ...
The commissioner may make and publish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as he shall deem necessary to enforce the provisions of this title. Whenever any condition is found to exist...
The commissioner may charge a fee of not less than $ 15.00 nor more than $ 1,000.00 for issuing a certificate of approval of any plans or specifications, or both, required by law or regulation of...
The commissioner may charge a reasonable fee for blue prints, literature and publications issued by the department. ...
Fees and moneys collected by the commissioner under the provisions of this title shall be paid by him to the state treasurer. ...
There shall be within the Division of Labor, Department of Labor and Industry, a mechanical inspection bureau which shall administer engineers' and firemen's licensing and boiler, pressure vessel...
The examining board of the mechanical inspection bureau shall administer the licensing of engineers and firemen and the inspection of boilers, pressure vessels and refrigeration plants. The...
The commissioner shall prescribe the duties of and adopt all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws for the operation of the mechanical inspection bureau not inconsistent with law, and shall...
Each member of the mechanical inspection bureau shall be paid his necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty. ...
Any citizen of the State having had at least 5 years' experience as engineer in the maintenance and operation of steam boilers, or as boiler maker, or as inspector for an insurance company...
The commissioner shall from time to time direct the examining board of the mechanical inspection bureau to hold examinations for inspectors and shall prescribe the rules for and scope of such...
The Governor shall appoint 6 citizens of this State, 2 of whom shall be professional engineers licensed by this State, and who shall represent the following interests: one manufacturer of boilers,...
The bureau of statistics and records shall be under the direction of a chief of bureau who shall be appointed by the commissioner. ...
The bureau of statistics and records shall collect, classify and report to the legislature, on or before the last day of October in each year, statistical details relating to labor in the state...
The annual report of the bureau shall include statistics showing the number of private firms and corporations engaged in the several industries in this state; the capital invested; amount of raw...
The information secured shall be presented in the annual report by figures only; the names of persons, firms or corporations shall in no case be printed and the business of manufacturers,...
Any owner, operator, lessee, manager or superintendent of an establishment or industry in which labor is employed within this state, who willfully neglects or refuses to make return or report as...
The chief of the bureau of statistics and records shall have power to examine witnesses under oath. ...
The bureau of industrial statistics and records shall publish and issue from time to time bulletins and pamphlets pertaining to its work and shall perform such other duties as the commissioner...
The bureau of statistics and records shall continue the compilation and publication every third year, or oftener if in the judgment of the commissioner the interests of the state will be served...
The workmen's compensation bureau shall consist of the commissioner who shall act as chairman, a director, deputy commissioners of compensation appointed by the commissioner; and such referees and...
The first director of the workmen's compensation bureau to be designated under this act shall be the deputy commissioner of compensation serving upon the effective date hereof in the capacity of...
Any referee, who is a counselor at law duly admitted to practice by the supreme court, and who has served as a referee in the bureau for not less than two years, may at the discretion of the...
The bureau of employment shall consist of a chief of bureau appointed by the commissioner and such clerks and employees as may be necessary. The commissioner may, for the purposes of the bureau,...
The department is authorized to establish such subdivisions of the bureau of employment as he may deem advisable for the following purposes: To bring together employers seeking employees and...
The commissioner is authorized to co-operate with other public employment bureaus, whether operated by voluntary, charitable or eleemosynary organizations, or by municipalities in this or other...
The bureau of employment of the New Jersey department of labor is hereby designated as the state agency which shall co-operate with the employment service of the United States department of labor...
The commissioner shall collect and disseminate all data as to unemployment and places offering employment in the manner most likely to enable the unemployed to secure employment. ...
The bureau of employment and bureaus co-operating in carrying out the provisions of sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-64, 34:1-66 to 34:1-69 of this title, shall keep a record of all labor disturbances or...
The bureau of employment shall assist migrant laborers in securing suitable employment, investigate their living and working conditions, and counsel them in matters of sanitation, and proper...
The bureau of employment shall investigate unemployment conditions affecting soldiers and sailors of the United States after their discharge from service, collect and compile data as to...
Each office of the bureau of employment shall in co-operation with the chief executive officers of the several municipalities within its district prepare and preserve a list of all available...
No compensation shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, for any service performed pursuant to sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-68 of this title from any person applying for employment or...
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall appoint a competent person to have charge of such Division of the Deaf, who shall be fully conversant with the sign language of the deaf as ascertained...
The director of such division shall collect and tabulate statistics pertaining to the deaf, their employment and welfare; shall ascertain primarily by annual review of the New Jersey job market,...
The Director of the Division of the Deaf shall receive such compensation as shall be determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry and such actual and necessary expenses as shall be...
The term deaf , for purposes of the Division of the Deaf and as used in this act, means those persons in whom the sense of hearing is nonfunctional for ordinary purposes of life and includes two...
The Legislature finds and declares that it shall be the policy of this State to secure the rights of hearing impaired persons who, because of impairment of hearing or speech, are unable to readily...
If a qualified interpreter or the hearing impaired client states that the interpretation is not satisfactory and that an intermediary interpreter will improve the quality of interpretation, the...
The appointing authority shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist a hearing impaired person throughout the proceedings and in preparation with counsel as follows: a. In any case before any...
In any action or proceeding in which an interpreter is required to be appointed, the court or administrative authority may not commence proceedings until the appointed interpreter is in full view...
a. The State Division of the Deaf in the Department of Labor, created pursuant to P.L.1941, c. 197 (C. 34:1-69.1 et seq.) shall maintain a list of qualified interpreters and provide the list to...
a. An appointed interpreter shall receive a reasonable fee for his services, together with his actual expenses for travel and waiting time. b. The Supreme Court shall establish rules governing the...
The right of a hearing impaired person to an interpreter shall not be waived unless the hearing impaired person requests a waiver in writing. The waiver shall be granted if the hearing impaired...
Any information that the interpreter gathers from the hearing impaired person pertaining to any proceeding then pending shall at all times remain confidential and privileged on an equal basis with...
Except as otherwise in this Title specifically provided, a proceeding for the recovery of a penalty for the violation of any provision of this Title shall be by a civil action in the name of the...
On the effective date of this act the Department of Labor and Industry established pursuant to P.L.1948, c. 446 (C. 34:1A-1 et seq.) shall be entitled and known as the Department of Labor and...
The administrator and head of the department shall be a commissioner, who shall be known as the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, and who shall be a person qualified by training and experience...
The commissioner, as head of the department, shall: (a) Administer the work of the department; (b) Appoint and remove officers and other personnel employed within the department, subject to the...
The commissioner may delegate to subordinate officers or employees in the department such of his powers as he may deem desirable, to be exercised under his supervision and direction, and shall, by...
There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a Division of Labor, a Division of Workmen's Compensation, and a Division of Employment Security. ...
All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Labor, of the Commissioner of Labor, and of the respective bureaus and divisions therein, of the existing Unemployment...
All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Labor and of the respective bureaus and divisions therein and of the Commissioner of Labor herein transferred to the...
The Division of Workplace Standards shall conduct an extensive orientation program to educate new and existing employers about wage and hour laws and, as appropriate, other laws pertaining to...
The Division of Labor shall be under the immediate supervision of a director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to direct the work of such division. The director of such...
There shall be within the Division of Labor, a Bureau of Migrant Labor. The division of migrant labor of the existing Department of Labor and Industry, together with all of its functions, powers...
All of the functions, powers and duties of the workmen's compensation bureau of the existing Department of Labor, and those exercised or performed by it or any of its officers or employees in the...
The Division of Workmen's Compensation shall consist of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry who shall act as chairman, a director who shall be appointed as hereinafter provided, judges of...
The Director of the Division of Workmen's Compensation and each judge of compensation shall be an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey. ...
Any person hereafter appointed as a referee, referee, formal hearings, supervising referee, or supervising referee, formal hearings shall be an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey,...
All persons heretofore appointed and serving as deputy directors of compensation shall continue in such appointments, as heretofore, with the title of judge of compensation. ...
The Director of the Division of Worker's Compensation shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c.30 (C.19:31-6.4) to be...
Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the workmen's compensation bureau of the existing...
All of the functions, powers and duties of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, of the respective bureaus and divisions therein, and of the executive director of such commission, are hereby...
The division of Employment Security shall be under the immediate supervision of a director who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to direct the work of such division. The...
The Director of the Division of Employment Services shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c.30 (C.19:31-6.4) to be...
The Director of the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c.30...
There shall be within the Department of Labor an Employment Security Council, which shall consist of nine members, not more than five of whom shall be of the same political affiliation. Three of...
There shall also be within the Division of Employment Security the Advisory Council on Disability Benefits, as established by and constituted under the Temporary Disability Benefits Law, except...
There shall be within the Division of Employment Security a Board of Review consisting of three members, who shall act as a final appeals board in cases of benefit disputes, including appeals from...
To hear and decide disputed benefit claims, including appeals from determinations with respect to demands by the deputy for refunds of benefits under section 43:21-16(d) of the Revised Statutes,...
Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the existing Unemployment Compensation Commission is...
The New Jersey State Board of Mediation of the existing Department of Labor and all of its functions, powers and duties are hereby transferred to the Department of Labor and Industry established...
The director of each division in the Department of Labor and Industry shall be in the unclassified service of the civil service of the State. Any such director may be removed from office by the...
Such employees of any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or transferred to the Department of Labor and...
Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person holding any office or position not abolished pursuant to the provisions of this act, of any tenure rights or of any right or protection...
All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or...
This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by any department, commission, board, officer or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which...
This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any department, commission, board, officer or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which...
The Unemployment Compensation Commission, the office of executive director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, the office of director of the New Jersey State Employment Service Division...
Subject to the provisions of this act: Whenever the term Commissioner of Labor occurs or any reference is made thereto in any law, contract or document, the same shall be deemed to mean or refer...
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed. ...
This act shall be known as, and may be cited as the Department of Labor and Industry Act of 1948. ...
This act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, except that any appointment, and any confirmation or approval of any appointment, permitted by...
The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a State Apprenticeship Council in the Division of Labor in the Department of Labor and Industry, composed of three...
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall appoint a person to be in charge of apprentice training in the Division of Labor in the Department of Labor and Industry. The Commissioner of Labor and...
Local and State joint apprenticeship committees may be approved, in any trade or group of trades, in trade areas or regions of the State by the council, whenever the apprentice training needs of...
Standards for apprenticeship agreements may be as follows: (1) A statement of the trade or craft to be taught and the required hours for completion of apprenticeship which shall be not less than...
For the purposes of this act an apprenticeship agreement shall be deemed to be: (1) An individual written agreement between an employer and an apprentice, or (2) a written agreement between an...
The provisions of this act shall apply to a person, firm, corporation or craft only after such person, firm, corporation or craft has voluntarily elected to conform with its provisions. ...
If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the act, and the application of such provision to other persons and...
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. ...
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. Increased revenues for this State and more employment opportunities for its citizens will result from the proper promotion throughout the United...
3. As used in this act, unless a different meaning appears from the context: a. Council means the New Jersey Tourism Advisory Council. b. Director means the Director of the Division of Travel...
There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry the Division of Travel and Tourism. The division shall be under the supervision of a director, who shall be a person qualified...
All the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Tourism and Promotion in the Division of Economic Development in the Department of Labor and Industry are transferred to the Division of...
The transfer directed by this act shall be made in accordance with the State Agency Transfer Act, P.L.1971, c. 375 (C. 52:14D-1 et seq.). ...
The director, upon consultation with the council, shall develop a 10-year master plan for the growth of tourism for presentation to the Governor and the Legislature no later than February 1, 1979....
In the pursuance and promotion of a State policy on tourism, the division shall: a. Provide and promote adequate opportunities for county and municipal participation, Federal agency participation,...
The commission shall: a. Aid the division in the formulation of the 10-year master plan and the annual review thereof; b. Consider all matters referred to it by the director; and c. Make...
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this act,...
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, superseded and repealed. ...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Products, New Jobs Act of 1980. ...
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is not in the public interest for any citizens of this State to be unemployed solely because of an inability to reach a place of potential...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Jobs Transportation Demonstration Act of 1978. ...
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is hereby authorized to develop and administer a program to provide funds for demonstration projects to transport persons to job sites, job...
The commissioner shall establish standards for the allocation of funds pursuant to this act which standards shall: a. Be responsive to areas of high unemployment; b. Guarantee that each applicant...
Demonstration projects funded under this act shall be limited to three basic intra-State services as follows: a. Transporting persons from employment service centers, or other centralized sites to...
There is established in, but not of, the Department of Labor the New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee which shall: a. Design and implement a comprehensive occupational...
The committee shall: a. Include the Commissioner of Commerce, Energy and Economic Development, as the representative of the State economic development agency; the Commissioner of Education, as the...
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee shall conduct, not less than once every three years, and on a Statewide basis, a comprehensive survey of occupations in the State...
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee shall conduct, not less than once every three years, and on a Statewide basis, a comprehensive survey of occupations in the State...
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee shall conduct, not less than once every three years, and on a Statewide basis, a comprehensive survey of occupations in the State...
There is established within the Department of Labor a Council on Undocumented Aliens which shall consist of 14 public members and the commissioner, ex officio, or his designee, as chair, not more...
The council shall be responsible for: a. Making a study of the undocumented alien population in this State, including, but not limited to: (1) An estimate of whether the number of undocumented...
The council may: a. Hold public meetings or hearings within the State on any matter or matters related to the provisions of this act. b. Call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of...
Three years from the date the council first meets, the council shall submit to the commissioner and the Legislature a report summarizing its activities, findings and recommendations. Upon the...
This act shall be known and may be cited as The New Jersey Economic Development Authority Act. LexisNexis (TM) Notes:
The Legislature hereby finds and determines that: a. Department of Labor statistics of recent years indicate a continuing decline in manufacturing employment within the State, which is a...
4. a. There is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of the Treasury a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the New Jersey Economic Development...
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the State Treasurer are hereby authorized to enter into one or more contracts to secure, in whole or in part, any bonds, refunding bonds or...
The authority shall have the following powers: a. To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; b. To adopt and have a seal and to alter the same at pleasure;...
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall adopt rules and regulations requiring that not less than the prevailing wage rate be paid to workers employed in the performance of any...
The rules and regulations adopted under section 1 of this act shall provide for the proper and appropriate administration and enforcement of such regulations. ...
A violation of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to section 1 of this act shall be deemed to be a violation of P.L.1963, c. 150 (C. 34:11-56.25 et seq.). The Commissioner of Labor and...
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall adopt rules and regulations to establish an affirmative action program for the hiring of minority workers employed in the performance of...
In the exercise of powers granted by P.L. 2000, c. 72 (C. 18A:7G-1 et al.) in connection with any school facilities project, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities or costs that the...
a. No municipality shall modify or change the drawings, plans or specifications for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or improvement of any school facilities project of...
a. In undertaking any school facilities projects where the cost of construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement will exceed $ 25,000, the authority may prepare, or cause to be...
a. If the authority shall find it necessary in connection with the undertaking of any school facilities project to change the location of any portion of any public highway or road, it may contract...
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, any bonds issued pursuant to P.L. 2000, c. 72 (C. 18A:7G-1 et al.) shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of...
A copy of any application for assistance under this act received by the authority shall be submitted to, and for the review and advice of, the Director of the Division of Economic Development....
a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special fund called the economic development fund into which shall be deposited such moneys (1) as shall be appropriated by the State for the...
The Legislature finds that there continue to exist in the State's urban communities high unemployment, low levels of new capital investment, depressed living and working conditions and...
The economic development fund established in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority under section 7 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-7) shall be a fund for community development purposes with the...
Amounts appropriated to the economic development fund from the Community Development Bond Fund shall be used for the purpose of paying or financing the costs of projects undertaken by the New...
Financing of projects pursuant to this act shall be in such form, amount and on such terms as the authority shall believe necessary in order to assure the economic feasibility of a project and to...
The authority shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature concerning the financing of projects undertaken, and concerning projects planned to be undertaken, pursuant to this act. The...
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as successor to the New Jersey State Area Redevelopment Authority through the Executive Reorganization Plan filed February 27, 1978, shall repay...
All sums appropriated or transferred to the New Jersey Area Redevelopment Authority, except those referred to in section 1 of this act, or to the New Jersey Urban Loan Authority, from any source,...
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as successor to the New Jersey State Area Redevelopment Authority, may, after negotiation and agreement with the State Treasurer, prepay all...
Sections one through ten of this act shall be known and may be cited as the Economic Recovery Fund Act. ...
The Legislature finds and determines that limitations on the availability of loan funds from financial institutions has seriously impeded the development and completion of many economic...
The authority may use the moneys in the fund to pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on bonds or notes, which shall be entitled Economic Recovery Fund Bonds or Notes, as appropriate,...
With respect to projects to be financed by the authority pursuant to this act and undertaken with moneys from the Economic Recovery Fund, the authority shall in determining those projects, and in...
Commencing with fiscal year 1992, the State Treasurer shall in each fiscal year pay from the General Fund to the Economic Recovery Fund, in accordance with a contract between the treasurer and the...
The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided for in section 6 of this act. The contract or...
The authority shall report six months after the effective date of this section, and annually thereafter not later than September 15, to the Governor and the Legislature concerning the financing of...
Notice of loans, guarantees, grants or other forms of financing for projects from such funds as may be made available under subsections a. and e. of section 4 of this act shall be submitted to the...
Sections 1 through 10 of this 1993 amendatory and supplementary act shall be known and may be cited as the Public School Capital Finance Assistance Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that the northeastern region of the country and New Jersey, in particular, continues to be seriously affected by the national economic downturn; that public...
As used in this act: Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4); Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Department...
a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the Public School Facilities Code Compliance Loan Fund, hereinafter the compliance fund, which...
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a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the Public School Facilities Loan Assistance Fund, hereinafter the facilities fund, which shall...
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority is authorized to issue bonds, in an aggregate amount not exceeding $ 100,000,000, the proceeds from which shall be used to provide matching funds...
In the case of a school district that has applied for any loan pursuant to this 1993 amendatory and supplementary act, and that is required to seek authorization for the issuance of bonds, or for...
The authority is hereby empowered and directed to adopt summarily any rule, and to take any administrative action whatsoever, necessary to effectuate the purposes of this 1993 amendatory and...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Boat Industry Loan Guarantee Fund Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that the regional and national economic downturn which began in late 1989 continues to negatively affect the State, resulting in an alarming number of layoffs in...
As used in this act: Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4). Boat means a vessel or watercraft, other...
a. To implement the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special revolving fund to be known as the New Jersey Boat Industry Loan Guarantee Fund, hereinafter the guarantee...
The authority shall establish sufficient reserves and liquid reserves to provide a sufficient and actuarially sound basis for its pledges contained in any loan guarantee agreement entered into...
The authority shall enter into agreements with participating banks and boat manufacturers or distributors qualified pursuant to subsection d. of section 5 of this act to use the moneys from the...
Within fifteen months following the effective date of this act, and on or before February 15 of each succeeding year in which a loan guarantee agreement entered into under this act is in effect,...
The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. In...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Biotechnology is an emerging technology that holds great promise for designing living organisms that can be used for the treatment of diseases, and...
As used in this act: Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4); Biotechnology means the continually...
The authority shall establish a New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program to stimulate increased financing to help fund the costs incurred by new or expanding...
a. To implement the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special account to be known as the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Fund,...
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall establish within the New Jersey Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Financial Assistance Program established pursuant to P.L.1995, c.137...
As used in P.L. 1997, c. 334 (C. 34:1B-7.42a et al.): Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L. 1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-4);...
Not later than one year following the effective date of this act, and for each succeeding year in which a financial assistance agreement entered into under this act is in effect, the authority...
The authority shall adopt, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. In...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Pension Bond Financing Act of 1997. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The State currently makes contributions on an annual basis to fund the State's obligations under its various pension funds and retirement systems,...
As used in this act: a. Bonds means bonds, notes or other obligations issued by the authority pursuant to this act. b. New Jersey Economic Development Authority or authority means the New...
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary: a. The authority shall have the power, pursuant to the provisions of this act and P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-1 et...
a. The State Treasurer shall, in each State fiscal year, pay from the General Fund to the authority, in accordance with a contract or contracts between the State Treasurer and the authority,...
The State Treasurer shall, on or before April 1 of each year, issue a report on the financing provided for in this act to the Governor, the Senate President, the Speaker of the General Assembly,...
It is the intent of the Legislature that in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this act and any other law pertaining to the purposes of this act, to the extent of...
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the...
The authority shall also have power to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation, and removal of tracks, pipes, mains, conduits,...
For the purpose of providing funds (a) to pay all or any part of the cost of any project or projects, (b) to make loans in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-1 et seq.),...
By resolution, the authority shall have power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its bonds for the purposes stated in section 9 of P.L. 1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-9). Except as may otherwise...
Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bond or other obligation issued pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of Title 12A,...
In order to secure the payment of such bonds and in addition to its other powers, the authority shall have power by resolution to covenant and agree with the several holders of such bonds, as to:...
Any pledge of revenues or other moneys made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made; the revenues or other moneys so pledged and thereafter received by...
Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. Bonds or other...
The governing bodies of any two contiguous municipalities within which is located or is to be located a New Jersey Economic Development Authority project situated in part within each municipality,...
Any agreement entered into pursuant to section 1 of this act for the sharing of payments and revenues derived from a project shall also set forth the manner in which the costs of municipal...
Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the State and all political subdivisions of this State, their officers, boards, commissioners, departments or other agencies, all banks,...
All banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business are hereby authorized to give to the authority a good and sufficient...
The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide a complete method for the doing of things authorized thereby and shall be regarded as not in conflict with, or as restrictive of,...
If any section, part, phrase, or provision of this act of the application thereof to any person, project or circumstances, be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment...
a. Any county, by resolution of its governing body, shall have power to enter into contracts with the authority relating to any project or projects situated within the county; provided, however,...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Good Driver Protection Act of 1994. ...
The Legislature hereby finds and declares: a. The Market Transition Facility, created pursuant to section 88 of P.L.1990, c. 8 (C. 17:33B-11) to serve as an interim residual market mechanism and...
For the purposes of sections 1 through 15 of this act: Commissioner means the Commissioner of Insurance. Division of Motor Vehicles Surcharge Fund or DMV Surcharge Fund means the fund...
a. The authority shall have the power to issue Market Transition Facility bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed $ 750 million, pursuant to the provisions of this act, under the powers given to...
a. For the purpose of providing funds for payment of current and anticipated liabilities and expenses of the facility, the authority shall have the power to provide for the funding or refunding of...
The authority may, in any resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or notes, pledge the Facility Revenue Fund or a portion thereof for payment of the redemption of the Market Transition...
There is created within the authority a special nonlapsing fund, to be known as the Market Transition Facility Revenue Fund. The Facility Revenue Fund shall consist of: a. Such monies as may be...
a. The authority may use the monies in the Market Transition Facility Revenue Fund to pay the principal and interest and premium, if any, on the Market Transition Facility bonds or notes issued by...
Market Transition Facility bonds and notes issued by the authority shall be special and limited obligations which are payable only from monies on deposit in the Facility Revenue Fund. New Jersey...
The State hereby pledges and covenants with the holders of any Market Transition Facility bonds, notes or other obligations and New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission bonds, notes or other...
No later than four months following the issuance of any Market Transition Facility bonds or notes, the Department of the Treasury, in conjunction with the authority, shall provide a statement...
There is created within the Department of the Treasury a special nonlapsing fund to be known as the Division of Motor Vehicles Surcharge Fund, which, beginning September 1, 1996 or earlier as...
a. The State Treasurer and the authority may enter into any agreements as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act, which may include, but not be limited to, procedures for the...
The State Treasurer shall, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this act, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, transfer to the Market Transition Facility Revenue Fund $ 100...
a. The commissioner shall prepare a semi-annual report for the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly on the financial condition of the New Jersey Automobile...
This act shall be known as the Motion Picture and Television Development Act. ...
a. There is hereby established in but not of the Department of Labor and Industry a Motion Picture and Television Development Commission. b. The commission shall consist of eight public members no...
The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall organize itself in such manner as it deems desirable and necessary, but no action shall be taken or motion or resolution adopted by...
On or before December 31 of each year, the Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall make an annual report of its activities for the Governor and the Legislature. ...
The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall have the following powers: a. To adopt such rules and regulations as it deems advisable with respect to the conduct of its own...
The Motion Picture and Television Development Commission shall prepare and implement programs to promote a motion picture and television industry within the State. Such a program shall include but...
If any section, part, phrase, or provision of this act or the application thereof to any person, project or circumstances, be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Worker Owned Corporation Study Act . ...
The Department of Labor and Industry is directed to undertake a study as to the best means of providing encouragement and assistance to the formulation of employee stock ownership plans providing...
In conducting its study, the department shall: a. consider Federal and State law relating directly or indirectly to these plans, and to the organization and operation of any trusts established...
Pursuant to the findings and conclusions of the study conducted as provided in sections 3. and 4. of this act, the Department of Labor and Industry shall develop a plan to encourage and assist the...
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall within 1 year of the effective date of this act report the findings and conclusions of the study, together with details of the plan...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund Act. ...
The Legislature finds that there continue to exist in the State areas of high unemployment, low levels of new capital investment, depressed living and working conditions, and a deteriorating tax...
As used in this act: a. Fund means the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund established in section 4 of this act. b. Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Department of Commerce...
There is established the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund, a special depository fund into which shall be deposited moneys for carrying out the purposes of this act. The fund shall be...
Financial assistance provided from the fund shall include, but not be limited to, loans, loan guarantees, grants, secondary mortgages and equity participation. The form, amount and terms of...
The commissioner shall evaluate and rank each application for financial assistance for a project in accordance with the following criteria: a. Primary criterion: (1) The number of unemployed...
The commissioner shall annually establish a schedule of discrete application periods for the next year, provided that no period shall be less than one month nor more than six months. At the end of...
Upon receipt of any revised project plan prepared as a result of any recommendations made pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of this act, and of any information required pursuant to the...
Upon receipt of a copy of the notice of approval of a project as an eligible project and accompanying statement of the terms of financial assistance, the State Treasurer shall arrange with the...
The commissioner shall require each sponsor of an eligible project receiving assistance from the New Jersey Local Development Financing Fund pursuant to the provisions of this act annually to...
The Legislature finds and declares: a. That entrepreneurship is a vital component of the national heritage that fosters the health and dynamism of the overall economy; b. That despite their...
For the purposes of this act: a. Authority means the New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities and Women's Enterprises established pursuant to the provisions of this act;...
a. There is established in but not of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development the New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities' and Women's Enterprises, which...
a. The authority may make long-term or short-term loans or other extensions of credit to eligible businesses under terms and conditions established by the authority. The authority shall establish...
a. The authority shall establish requirements as may be necessary and practical for the use of minority or women's businesses on projects financed in whole or in part by the authority. The...
The authority shall, by resolution of the board, have the power to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue bonds to provide long-term and short-term financing to eligible businesses pursuant to...
Bonds and notes of the authority issued under the provisions of this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the State or of any political subdivision thereof or be or constitute a...
Any bond or other obligation issued by the authority pursuant to this act shall be fully negotiable, within the meaning and for the purposes of Title 12A of the New Jersey Statutes, and each...
In order to secure the payment of its bonds and in addition to its other powers, the authority shall have power by resolution to covenant and agree with the several holders of the bonds, as to: a....
On obligations purchased or monies otherwise invested by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority as required by section 33 of P.L. 1984, c. 218 (C. 5:12-181), the authority shall covenant...
All provisions of the resolution and all covenants and agreements shall constitute valid and legally-binding contracts between the authority and the several holders of the bonds, regardless of the...
All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable solely from revenues or funds provided or to be provided under the provisions of this act and nothing in this act...
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the State, its political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities, their officers, boards, commissioners, departments, any...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Global Export Network Act. ...
The Legislature finds and determines that: a. The rapid change in global political and economic events and the effects thereof on the economy of the United States in general, and New Jersey in...
As used in this act: Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-4). Eligible export business means a small- or...
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall, in consultation with the Division of International Trade and the Division of Economic Development in the Department of Commerce and Economic...
The authority shall establish sufficient reserves and liquid reserves, aside from those moneys required to provide a sufficient and actuarially sound basis for its pledges contained in any loan,...
The authority shall enter into agreements with participating banks to use the moneys from the network assistance fund to provide up to 25% of the direct loans or revolving lines of credit for...
The authority shall, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations governing the making of loans, extending of credit and the...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Micro-Business Development and Assistance Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Approximately 98% of New Jersey's employers are small business operators and more than 1.5 million employees are working in small businesses in this...
As used in this act: Certified micro-business development corporation means a micro-business development corporation certified pursuant to section 7 of this act; Commissioner means the...
a. To implement the program, the authority shall establish and maintain a special revolving fund to be known as the New Jersey Micro-Business Assistance Fund, hereinafter, the assistance fund,...
a. The authority shall use the moneys in the assistance fund established pursuant to section 5 of this act to make development loans to micro-business development corporations certified by the...
The authority may certify a micro-business development corporation when it determines that the corporation: a. has developed a viable plan for providing training, access to financing, and...
a. The authority shall have, in addition to the powers enumerated in section 5 of P.L.1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-5), the power to enter into written agreements, including limited partnership...
In addition to the duties of the authority required under section 7 of P.L.1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-7), the authority shall, in conjunction with certified development corporations and the department,...
The authority and the department shall jointly adopt, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations as may be necessary to...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development admirably provides generic services and technical assistance to businesses that request such help;...
As used in this act: Commissioner means the Commissioner of Commerce and Economic Development; Department means the Department of Commerce and Economic Development; Economic master plan...
The commissioner may undertake to act through the Division of Economic Development, or through a nonprofit entity which may include a nonprofit corporation organized to implement the...
In implementing the goals of section 4 of this act, the commissioner shall encourage the division or a designated nonprofit entity, as the case may be, to coordinate efforts with existing economic...
To the extent that the commissioner acts pursuant to section 4 of this act, the commissioner shall encourage industry sector networks to support their network activities with private industry...
The commissioner may allocate matching funds to help an industry sector network with network start-up costs and activities in order to stimulate private sector financing to promote self-sufficient...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Business Relocation Mission Private Partnership Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. A 1993 survey of business relocations reveals that business relocations to New Jersey came from 12 other states and nine foreign locations; b....
The Department of Commerce and Economic Development, hereinafter the department, acting through the Division of Economic Development, or through a nonprofit entity designated by the department...
The department, acting through the Division of International Trade, or through a nonprofit entity designated by the department which may include a nonprofit corporation organized to implement the...
The department shall, within 18 months following the effective date of this act, submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature describing the efforts made by the department, or a designated...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Export Financing Opportunities Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Currently, despite the existence of banks with active international export departments, small and medium-sized businesses in New Jersey find it...
As used in this act: Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, established pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1974, c. 80 (C.34:1B-4). Commissioner means the Commissioner of...
The authority is authorized, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, to invest such moneys from the Economic Recovery Fund, established pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1992, c. 16 (C.34:1B-7.12),...
a. The company shall have as its purpose the making of loans and loan guarantees to small or medium-sized businesses to assist in their export activities. Such loans and loan guarantees shall...
a. There is established an Export Finance Company Advisory Council in, but not of, the Department of Commerce and Economic Development. The council shall be made up of eleven members: one shall be...
Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the council from developing regional partnerships and contractual arrangements with other states which may be interested in investing in the...
This amendatory and supplementary act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Purchase First Program Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Hearings held by the General Assembly Task Force on Business Retention, Expansion and Export Opportunities revealed that many companies buy products or...
Within 24 months of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, the commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the outcome of the program authorized under...
The department may adopt, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c. 410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Capital Sources Partnership Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Businesses with a small capital investment are an essential part of the economy of the State in terms of products and services and as employers; b....
a. There is established a New Capital Sources Board in, but not of, the Department of Commerce and Economic Development. The board shall be made up of fifteen members: one shall be the...
a. Within one year following the date the board first convenes, the board shall incorporate or cause to be incorporated, as the case may be, a New Capital Sources Partnership. b. The purpose of...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Business Relocation Assistance Act. ...
As used in this act: Business relocation grant or grant means a grant provided to fund a portion of relocation costs pursuant to this act; Commissioner means the Commissioner of the...
The Business Relocation Assistance Grant Program is hereby established in the Department of Commerce and Economic Development and shall be administered by the Commissioner of the Department of...
Each business seeking a grant shall submit an application to the commissioner in a form and manner prescribed in regulations adopted by the commissioner. The application must be submitted to the...
No amount shall be disbursed to a recipient as a grant under this act in any year until the State Treasurer has certified that the amount of new income tax revenue received in that year by the...
a. A business that is receiving a business employment incentive grant pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1996, c. 26 (C. 34:1B-124 et al.) shall not be eligible to receive a grant under this act...
The commissioner shall, after consultation with the Division of Taxation, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations...
As determined by the commissioner, a business which is awarded a grant under this act shall submit a copy of the State tax return for the business showing business income or activity, appropriate...
The commissioner shall prepare and transmit to the Governor and the Legislature on or before November 1st of each year, a report concerning the impact of the program on job creation in the State. ...
The department shall conduct a study to determine the minimum funding level required to successfully implement this program. The study shall fully consider the rate of return for each job...
There is appropriated to the Department of Commerce and Economic Development from the General Fund such sums as may be necessary, as certified by the Commissioner and the Director of the Division...
Sections 1 through 17 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the Business Employment Incentive Program Act. ...
There is established the Business Employment Incentive Program to be administered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. In order to foster job creation in this State, the authority may...
a. A business may apply to the authority for a grant for any project which: (1) Will create at least 75 eligible positions in the base years; or (2) Will create at least 25 eligible positions in a...
A business shall apply to the authority for a grant on a form prescribed by the authority which shall include: a. The name of the business, the proposed location of the project, and the type of...
a. The amount of the employment incentive awarded as a grant in each case shall be not less than 10% and not more than 80% of the withholdings of the business, or not less than 10% and not more...
The business employment incentive agreement shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: a. A detailed description of the proposed project which will result in job creation, and the...
a. No later than February 1 of each year, for the preceding grant year, every business which is awarded a grant under this act shall submit to the authority a copy of its applicable New Jersey tax...
a. If the business receiving a grant fails to meet or comply with any condition or requirement set forth in a grant agreement or in rules and regulations of the authority or the division, the...
No amount shall be disbursed to a recipient business as a grant under this act in any year until the State Treasurer has certified that the amount of withholdings or estimated taxes of partners,...
a. A business that is receiving a business relocation grant pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1996, c. 25 (C.34:1B-112 et seq.)shall not be eligible to receive a grant under this act except upon...
The department shall conduct a study to determine the minimum funding level required to implement the Business Employment Incentive Program successfully. Major consideration shall be given to the...
The authority shall establish an application fee for a grant application and service fees payable by each business which is a grant recipient to pay the costs of the administration of the program. ...
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, after consultation with the Department of Commerce and Economic Development and the Division of Taxation, shall, in accordance with the...
The Department of Commerce and Economic Development shall submit a report on the Business Employment Incentive Program to the Governor, President of the Senate, and Speaker of the General Assembly...
There is appropriated to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority from the General Fund such sums as may be necessary to fund the Business Employment Incentive Program established by this...
a. There is established in the Executive Branch of the State Government an Economic Development Site Task Force. For the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article V, Section IV,...
a. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development shall establish a process under which applicants may apply for monies made available from the 1996 Economic Development Site Fund,...
a. To be eligible to receive monies from the 1996 Economic Development Site Fund, established pursuant to section 20 of P.L.1996, c.70, an economic development site project must meet at least...
The Legislature shall, from time to time, appropriate monies from the 1996 Economic Development Site Fund, established pursuant to section 20 of P.L.1996, c.70, to the Department of Commerce and...
Sections 2 through 19 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the Port Unification and Financing Act. ...
The Legislature finds and declares: a. The Legislature of the State of New Jersey approved legislation in 1992, concurred in by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and approved by the Congress of the...
a. For the purpose of providing funds for the financing of the establishment, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, improvement and ownership of port facilities, the authority shall have the...
The authority may, in any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes pursuant to this act, pledge the Port Facility Revenue Fund or a portion thereof for payment of the redemption of...
There is created within the authority a special nonlapsing fund, to be known as the Port Facility Revenue Fund. This fund shall consist of: a. Such moneys as may be transferred to the fund by...
a. The authority may use moneys in the Port Facility Revenue Fund to pay the principal and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds or notes issued by it pursuant to this act and in connection...
Bonds and notes issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be special and limited obligations which are payable only from the sources enumerated in this act. Neither the...
The State hereby pledges and covenants with holders of any bonds, notes or other obligations issued pursuant to this act that it will not limit or alter the rights or powers vested in the...
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the State shall indemnify and save harmless the authority, its members or employees from any actions, claims, judgments or awards...
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the State Treasurer is authorized to enter into an agreement with the South Jersey Port Corporation on or after the transfer of the...
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Treasurer is authorized to enter into an agreement with the Delaware River Port Authority or the subsidiary corporation, or...
The State Treasurer and the authority may enter into any agreements as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act, which may include, but not be limited to, procedures for the...
a. The South Jersey Port Corporation shall cooperate with the authority in the defeasing, refunding or refinancing of the outstanding obligations of the corporation by the authority as authorized...
Notwithstanding the provisions of this act to the contrary, the authority shall not acquire from the South Jersey Port Corporation the former port facilities of the Salem Municipal Port Authority...
a. To effectuate any of its authorized purposes either directly or indirectly, the authority, in addition to any powers granted to it elsewhere in P.L.1997, c.150 (C.34:1B-144 et al.), shall have...
The authority, or any subsidiary, may enter into agreements with any individual, partnership, trust, association or corporation, or any public agency, under which the authority or subsidiary and...
When undertaking any construction, reconstruction, or other improvement of property which is part of the marine facilities or redevelopment facilities located in the City of Camden, the authority...
a. The exercise of the powers granted by this act shall constitute the performance of an essential governmental function and the authority shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments...
A subsidiary corporation or other corporation established by the Delaware River Port Authority which has employees eligible to participate in the State Health Benefits Program as provided in...
At any time, the Legislature may express its disapproval of a decision, action or procedure of the subsidiary corporation established by the Delaware River Port Authority pursuant to the...
As used in this act: Act means the Local-State Business Incentive Promotion Act. Applicant means any business within a county or municipality applying for a loan pursuant to this act....
a. There is created, in the authority, a Local-State Business Incentive Promotion Program. The program shall be established by the authority. The program shall consist of loans which shall be...
a. To implement this act, the authority shall establish and maintain the program with moneys to be used by the authority for the purposes specified in this act. Moneys to be utilized by the...
a. The authority shall use the moneys from the program to provide loans to applicants determined to be qualified by the authority to participate in the program, in accordance with the criteria set...
The authority shall have, in addition to the powers set forth in section 5 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-5), the power to enter into written agreements with one or more private investors, or with one...
a. The authority shall seek to coordinate its efforts and activities, to the greatest extent feasible, with the county or municipality, in order to retain or attract businesses in the applicant's...
If a project fails to meet or comply with a condition or requirement set forth in a loan agreement with the authority or in rules and regulations of the authority, the authority may cancel or...
The authority may adopt, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. ...
The Legislature finds and determines that: a. In order to encourage and assist veterans to avail themselves of the State's business assistance programs, it is important to provide for the...
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as the authority), established pursuant to section 4 of P.L. 1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-4), shall, in consultation with the...
The authority shall prepare a report within two years following the effective date of this act, and not less than every third year thereafter, which shall include, but not be limited to: a...
No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any gainful occupation at any time; provided, that minors between 14 and 16 years...
Except as provided in section 15 of P.L.1940, c. 153 (C. 34:2-21.15) and except for domestic service or messengers employed by communications companies subject to the supervision and control of...
No minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work for more than five hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a lunch period, and no period...
Every employer shall post and keep conspicuously posted in the establishment wherein any minor under 18 is employed, permitted, or suffered to work a printed abstract of this act and a list of the...
(a) Except as permitted under section 15 of this act, no minor under 18 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any gainful occupation,...
The issuing officer shall issue such certificates only upon the application in person of the minor desiring employment, and after having approved and filed the following papers: (1) A promise of...
Upon request, it shall be the duty of the issuing officer to issue to any young person between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years residing in his district and applying in person, who...
An employment certificate shall state the name, sex, color, date and place of birth, residence, color of hair and eyes, height, weight, any distinguishing facial marks of the child----the...
An employment or age certificate or special permit issued in accordance with this act shall be conclusive evidence of the age of the minor for whom issued in any proceeding involving the...
Every issuing officer issuing an employment or an age certificate or special permit, shall send immediately to the Department of Labor at Trenton, a duplicate of the certificate or permit and the...
Every employer receiving an employment certificate shall within two days after termination of the employment return said certificate to the person issuing it. A new employment certificate shall...
Except as hereinafter provided as to newspaper carriers, no minor under 14 years of age may engage in any street trade, which term, for the purpose of this section shall include the selling,...
No fees or expenses incurred in obtaining any certificates under this act shall be charged to or paid by any child, parent, guardian or other person having custody or control of such a child for...
No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with power-driven machinery. No minor under 18 years of age shall be employed, permitted...
Section 17 to P.L. 1940, c. 153 (C. 34:2-21.17) shall not apply to minors under the age of 18 years who participate or work in any junior achievement program. As used in this act junior...
Concurrent with all other provisions of P.L. 1940, c. 153 (C. 34:2-21.1 et seq.), minors who are 12 through 17 years of age shall be permitted to work as volunteers at community operated...
Concurrent with all other provisions of P.L.1940, c.153 (C.34:2-21.1 et seq.), minors who are 14 through 17 years of age shall be permitted to work as volunteers for nonprofit organizations...
A minor working voluntarily in the construction of affordable housing pursuant to section 1 of this act shall not be deemed an employee under R.S. 34:15-36. A nonprofit organization which uses the...
Section 17 of P.L. 1940, c. 153 (C. 34:2-21.17) shall not apply to minors under the age of 18 who have successfully reached the ninth or higher grade level and who have the approval of a parent or...
The Commissioner of Labor, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and...
It shall be the duty of the Department of Labor and its inspectors and agents, acting under the Commissioner of Labor, to enforce the provisions of this act, to make complaints against persons...
Whoever employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or to work in violation of this act, or of any order or ruling issued under the provisions of this act, or obstructs the Department...
If any provisions of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of such provisions to other persons or...
The provisions of article two, chapter two, of Title 34, Revised Statutes § § [34:2-2 to 34:2-21], and of sections 18:14-15 to 18:14-33, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes, are hereby repealed. ...
This act shall take effect September first, one thousand nine hundred and forty. ...
Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect adversely any right or rights of newspaperboys under the provisions of chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey. ...
As used in this act: a. Professional employment means employment for pay as an actor or performer in a theatrical production. b. Theatrical production means and includes stage, motion picture...
Notwithstanding any provision of the child labor laws of this State, the professional employment of minors under the age of 16 years in theatrical productions is authorized upon compliance with...
The issuing officer or the Commissioner of Labor, pursuant to section 3b. of P.L.1962, c. 91 (C. 34:2-21.59), may refuse to grant a permit or certificate if, in his judgment, the best interests of...
Permits may be renewed upon application. A separate permit shall be required for each employee. The employer shall have the permit available for inspection at all times at the place of...
The Department of Education shall deliver a copy of each application to the Department of Labor. ...
Any person who obtains a permit under this act and employs a minor under the age of 16 to perform an indecent or immoral exhibition, which exhibition is a prohibited performance under this act,...
Whoever obtains any permit under this act (P.L.1962, c. 91; C. 34:2-21.57 et seq.) upon any false statement made in applying therefor, or employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Because of the fire hazards directly associated with dispensing fuel, it is in the public interest that gasoline station operators have the control...
As used in this act: Attendant means a retail dealer or employee of a retail dealer. Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor. Fuel means any liquid commonly or commercially known or...
It shall be unlawful for any attendant to: a. Dispense fuel into the tank of a motor vehicle while the vehicle's engine is in operation; b. Dispense fuel into any portable container not in...
No person shall dispense fuel at a gasoline station, unless the person is an attendant who has received instructions regarding the dispensing of fuel, had practical experience dispensing fuel...
There shall be available at each station for inspection by the commissioner a certificate for each person who dispenses fuel at the station certifying that the person meets the requirements of...
A violator of any provision of this act shall be liable for a penalty of not less than $ 50.00 and not more than $ 250.00 for a first offense and not more than $ 500.00 for each subsequent...
The commissioner shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate...
Every elevator moving in a vertical shaft, used for carrying passengers, shall have some interlocking device that will automatically prevent the elevator car from being moved in either direction...
Every device, before being used or installed as required by section 34:4-1 of this title in any building within the jurisdiction of the department of labor, under the labor laws, shall have the...
The commissioner or the building inspector, as the case may be, shall enforce the provisions of this chapter by order in writing served upon the owner, tenant or lessee, specifying the directions...
All penalties under this chapter arising in municipalities having a building inspector as mentioned in sections 34:4-2 and 34:4-3 of this title shall be sued for by the building inspector for the...
Service shall be made on the owner or owners, person or persons or any of them, owning the place or operating the business wherein the offense is committed, if he or they reside in the county...
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to nullify any ordinance, rule or regulation not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, which may have been passed or promulgated by any...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Ski Lift Safety Act. ...
It shall be the policy of the State of New Jersey to protect its citizens and visitors from unnecessary mechanical hazards in the operation of ski tows, lifts and tramways, to ensure that proper...
a. If as a result of an inspection it is found that there exists any violation of the rules, regulations or codes, adopted under this act, or that there exists a condition in passenger tramway...
a. Any operator who is aggrieved by an order issued pursuant to subsection c. of section 8 of this act may, within 10 days after the service of such order, apply to the commissioner for a review...
Any operator who operates a passenger tramway which has not been registered by the commissioner as provided in this act, or after its registration has been suspended or its operation forbidden by...
The commissioner shall have the power to bring injunctive proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with any lawful order made by him pursuant to the provisions of...
Any operator who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has made any complaint to the commissioner regarding a violation of this act or any rule...
In addition to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, upon notice and hearing, may impose a penalty not exceeding $ 500.00 for any violation of this act or of...
The commissioner shall charge operators a reasonable fee for conducting inspections, processing applications, and meeting all other responsibilities under this act. ...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Construction Safety Act. LexisNexis (TM) Notes: CASE NOTES
The following terms wherever used or referred to in this act shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context; a. Act means this act and rules and...
The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this act, make complaints against persons violating its provisions and prosecute violations of the same. The commissioner shall have the power and...
The commissioner shall have the power and authority to grant exceptions from the literal requirements of rules and regulations promulgated under this act. Such exception shall be granted in any...
There is hereby established within the department a Construction Safety Council. The council shall consist of 16 members; 15 appointed by the Governor, and the commissioner who shall serve as...
There is hereby created a Construction Safety Section in the Bureau of Engineering and Safety in the Division of Labor, Department of Labor and Industry, the function of which shall be, under the...
Whenever loss of life or serious accident shall occur at a place of employment covered by this act, the commissioner may require the person in charge to report such loss of life or serious...
The record or determination of any proceeding under this act or any statement or report of any kind whatsoever obtained or received in connection with the administration or enforcement of the...
This act shall not in any way increase the burden of care ordinarily imposed by the common law of the State upon those within its jurisdiction. ...
Any employer or any officer, agent or employee thereof who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $ 25.00 nor more than $ 500.00 to be collected...
This act is not intended to alter in any way the duties of persons to take precautions in the proximity of high voltage lines imposed by P.L.1948, c. 249. ...
This act shall not apply to any employer subject to the provisions of section 34:6-141 of the Revised Statutes, to any employer subject to the provisions of chapter 197 of the laws of 1954, to any...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Worker and Community Right to Know Act. LexisNexis (TM) Notes:
The Legislature finds and declares that the proliferation of hazardous substances in the environment poses a growing threat to the public health, safety, and welfare; that the constantly...
As used in this act: a. Chemical Abstracts Service number means the unique identification number assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service to chemicals. b. Chemical name means the scientific...
a. The Department of Environmental Protection shall develop an environmental hazardous substance list which shall include the list of substances developed and used by the department for the...
a. The Department of Health shall develop a workplace hazardous substance list which shall include: (1) Any substance or substance contained in a mixture regulated by the federal Occupational...
a. Within five days of the effective date of this act, the Department of Health shall transmit copies of the workplace survey to the Department of Labor. Upon receipt of the workplace survey, the...
a. Except as otherwise provided in section 15 of this act, an employer shall have until October 30, 1985, or within 90 days of the employer's receipt of the workplace survey, whichever is later,...
a. Upon receipt of a completed workplace survey from an employer, the Department of Health shall transmit to that employer a hazardous substance fact sheet for each hazardous substance reported by...
a. The Department of Environmental Protection shall maintain a file of all completed environmental surveys received from employers. Each environmental survey received by the department shall be...
a. The Department of Health shall maintain a file of all completed workplace surveys received from employers. Each workplace survey received shall be retained by the department for 30 years. The...
As used in this act: Child care center means a child care center licensed pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1983, c. 492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.); Hazardous substance means any substance, or...
a. No person shall use or allow the use of any hazardous substance in or on any building or grounds used as a public school, a private school, or child care center at any time when children are...
The local health agency for the jurisdiction in which the public or private school or child care center is located shall enforce the provisions of this act. Whenever, on the basis of information...
The Department of Health and Senior Services, in consultation with the Departments of Education, Human Services and Environmental Protection, and within 180 days of the enactment of P.L.1997, c....
a. An employer shall, upon request, provide an employee whose native language is Spanish with a Spanish translation of a workplace survey, hazardous substance fact sheet, and, if applicable, an...
Every employer shall establish and maintain a central file at his facility in which he shall retain a workplace survey for the facility, appropriate hazardous substance fact sheets, and, if...
a. Every employer shall have until October 30, 1985 to establish an education and training program for his employees, which shall be designed to inform employees in writing and orally of the...
a. Every employer shall have until October 30, 1985 to take any action necessary to assure that every container at his facility containing a hazardous substance shall bear a label indicating the...
a. If an employer believes that disclosing information required by this act will reveal a trade secret, he may file with the appropriate department a trade secret claim as herein provided. As used...
a. Any employee or employee representative may request, in writing, from his employer, a copy of a workplace survey, hazardous substance fact sheet, or, where applicable, an environmental survey...
Each county health department shall maintain a file of workplace surveys and environmental surveys transmitted to it pursuant to the provisions of this act. These surveys, pursuant to the...
Any person may bring a civil action in law or equity on his own behalf against any employer for a violation of any provision of this act or any rule and regulation promulgated pursuant thereto or...
Substances not included on the workplace hazardous substance list or the environmental hazardous substance list shall not be subject to the reporting provisions of this act. However, the absence...
a. No local police department or local fire department receiving workplace surveys or environmental surveys pursuant to the provisions of this act shall make the surveys available to the public....
a. There is established in the Department of the Treasury a nonlapsing, revolving fund to be known as the Worker and Community Right To Know Fund. The Worker and Community Right To Know Fund...
The Department of Labor shall refund any fee collected pursuant to section 26 of P.L. 1983, c. 315 (C. 34:5A-26) to any employer who has paid this fee and is exempt from the fee pursuant to...
Within two years of the effective date of this act the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Labor shall jointly prepare and submit to the...
a. The Department of Health shall have the right to enter an employer's facility during the normal operating hours of the facility to determine the employer's compliance with the provisions of...
Except as otherwise provided in this act, the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Labor and the Department of the Treasury shall adopt any rules and...
a. Whenever, on the basis of information available to him, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection finds that an employer is in violation of subsection b. of section 7, or of subsection b. or...
The Legislature finds that the application, enclosure, removal and encapsulation of asbestos when improperly performed creates unnecessary health and safety hazards which are detrimental to the...
The Legislature declares it to be its purpose and policy to reduce asbestos-related hazards by: a. Encouraging contracting parties, citizens and insurance companies in their efforts to reduce...
Any private or public agency letting contracts for any activity involving the application, enclosure, repair, removal or encapsulation of asbestos in any structure for which a license is required...
No employer shall either directly or indirectly perform any of the functions of application, enclosure, removal, or encapsulation of asbestos in any structure, nor enter into any contract with the...
Every employee performing functions of application, enclosure, repair, removal, or encapsulation of asbestos, with the exception of employees of an employer subject to the federal Occupational...
Beginning not later than one year following the effective date of this act, licenses and permits shall be issued by the Commissioner of Labor, or his designee, and shall be valid for 12 months, in...
Not later than six months after the effective date of this act, the Commissioners of Labor and Health jointly shall, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, adopt all...
This act, and its standards and regulations, shall be enforced by the Commissioners of Labor and Health, who have the right-of-entry to all pertinent premises and records for purposes of...
Any person who knowingly hinders or delays the Commissioner of Labor or Health and Senior Services or the authorized representative thereof, in the performance of the duty to enforce this act, or...
Any employer who discriminates against or otherwise sanctions an employee who complains or cooperates with the Commissioner of Labor or Health, or the designee thereof, in administering this act...
a. The Commissioner of Health shall, by regulation, adopt standards and other requirements for the certification of training programs and for approving examinations for the issuance of licenses or...
Any person who believes that a violation of this act has occurred may petition the Commissioner of Health or the Commissioner of Labor to bring an enforcement action pursuant to this section. Any...
The fire chief of every municipality, or in the absence thereof, the person in responsible charge of fire fighting in such municipalities, shall report the occurrence of every fire in an...
The report shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the commissioner and shall identify the premises by ownership and location, state the number of injuries and fatalities that were...
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty. ...
As used in this act: a. Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor or any of his authorized representatives. b. High-voltage lines means electrical conductors installed above ground and...
No employer or supervising agent of an employer shall require or permit an employee to participate in the operation, erection, transportation, handling, or storage of any tools, machinery,...
The owner, agent, lessee, bailee, user, or employer responsible for the operations of equipment capable of coming in contact with a high-voltage line in the course of its operation, shall post and...
Whenever any activity is to be performed requiring precautionary action under section 2 of this act, the employer, contractor or other person responsible for the activity shall, promptly notify...
The commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions of this act and he is hereby empowered to prescribe and promulgate rules and regulations consistent herewith. ...
Any person violating any of the provisions of P.L.1948, c.249 (C.34:6-47.1 et seq.) shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $ 500.00 nor more than $ 5,000.00 to be collected in a civil...
This act shall not be construed as applying to, shall not apply to, and is not intended to apply to, the construction, reconstruction, operations, and maintenance of overhead electrical conductors...
In case any provision of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional or void for any reason, such adjudication shall not affect any of the other provisions of this act. ...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Mine Safety Act. ...
a. There is hereby created within the bureau a mine safety section under the direction and general supervision of the deputy director. b. The mine safety section shall be under the immediate...
a. Every operator shall comply with the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations issued thereunder and every person shall comply with such provisions that may be applicable to him. b....
a. Every mine shall be so constructed, equipped, arranged, operated, maintained and conducted in all respects as to provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety of...
a. When explosives are used in a mine or quarry, the manner of storing, keeping, handling, moving, charging and firing, or in any manner using such explosives, shall be in accordance with the...
a. Whenever the commissioner receives a complaint in writing signed by 2 or more persons employed in a mine, setting forth that the mine or part thereof in which he or they are working is being...
No municipality or other governmental subdivision shall have the power to make any ordinance, by-law or resolution providing for safety to workers in the mining industry or providing for...
Within the meaning of this article a tenement is any house or building or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the home or residence of three...
Application for such a license shall be made to the commissioner by any family or member thereof, or any person desiring to manufacture, alter, repair, finish or distribute any goods in any...
Before any such license is granted, an inspection of the dwelling, tenement, room, or building sought to be licensed, shall be made by the commissioner, factory inspector or investigator. If the...
Each license shall state the maximum number of persons who may be employed in the dwelling, tenement, room, or building. The number shall be determined by the number of cubic feet of air space...
The license must be posted in a conspicuous place in the room or rooms where the work is carried on. The license may be revoked by the commissioner if the health of the community or of the...
Any person holding such license shall immediately report to the department any case of infectious or contagious disease occurring in the place covered by the license. If the commissioner, factory...
It shall be unlawful for any person to contract to manufacture, alter, repair, finish or distribute for such purposes any goods whatsoever in an unlicensed dwelling, tenement or room therein or...
Any person, by himself or by his agent, contracting for the manufacturing, altering, repairing, finishing or distributing in any place regulated by this article of any goods whatsoever, shall keep...
All homeworkers engaged or employed in the hand knitting industry shall keep a daily record of work done, and all employers in said industry shall likewise keep and maintain a record of the daily...
Any violation of the provisions hereof shall subject the offender to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars ($ 50.00) for the first offense, and a penalty of not less than two hundred dollars ($...
The manufacturing, altering, repairing or finishing in whole or in part, or distributing for the purposes thereof, of any dolls, dolls' clothing, articles of children's or infants' wearing apparel...
No license to manufacture, alter, repair or finish in whole or in part, or distribute for the purposes thereof, any dolls, dolls' clothing, or articles of children's or infants' wearing apparel,...
Nothing in this article shall be held to prevent the employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person for the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing any articles of wearing apparel...
Any corporation, the officers and agents thereof, the members of any firm, the agents thereof, and any other person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a...
Any place where manufacturing, altering, repairing, finishing or distributing for the purposes thereof, of any goods, for hire or reward, is habitually carried on in violation of this article...
Any penalty for a violation of this article shall be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the commissioner in the Superior Court or municipal court of the municipality, where the...
(a) The Legislature has long recognized, through laws regulating the employment of men, women and children, that working conditions detrimental to health and welfare result in injury not only to...
Whenever used in this act. (a) Person means any individual; firm; partnership, or the officers or agents thereof; domestic corporation or foreign corporation, or the officers or agents of such...
The manufacture of any of the following by industrial homework shall be unlawful, and no permit or certificate issued under this act shall be deemed to authorize such manufacture: (1) Articles of...
(a) The commissioner shall have the power upon his own initiative, and it shall be his duty upon receipt of a petition of fifty or more residents of this State, to make an investigation of any...
Before making such order the commissioner shall hold a public hearing or hearings at which an opportunity to be heard shall be afforded to any employer, or representatives of employers, and any...
(a) The commissioner shall determine the effective date of such order, which date shall be not less than ninety days after the date of its promulgation. The order shall set forth the type or types...
(a) Every employer must procure from the commissioner an employer's permit. Application for such permit shall list the names and addresses of home workers and shall be made on a form prescribed by...
A fee of $ 150.00 shall be paid to the Department of Labor and Industry for the original issuance of an employer's permit. For each annual renewal of such permit, the employer shall pay to the...
(a) Every person desiring to engage in industrial home work within this State must procure from the commissioner a home worker's certificate which shall be issued without cost and which shall be...
Each employer shall keep within this State in such form and manner as the commissioner may by rule, regulation or order prescribe and shall forward to the commissioner at such intervals and upon...
Industrial home work shall be performed: (1) Only by a person possessing a valid home worker's certificate, and resident in the home in which the work is done; (2) Only by persons 16 years of age...
No employer shall deliver or cause to be delivered any materials or articles to be manufactured by any home worker unless there has been conspicuously affixed to each article a label or other mark...
(a) Any article or material which is being manufactured in a home in violation of any provisions of this act may be removed by the commissioner and may be retained by him until claimed by the...
(a) The commissioner shall enforce and administer the provisions of this act and the commissioner is directed to make all inspections and investigations necessary for proper enforcement and...
The commissioner shall have the power to make, issue, amend and rescind such rules, regulations and orders as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this act. Without limiting...
The commissioner shall have the power to institute a civil action in the Superior Court for injunctive relief, and such court shall have the power to restrain any employer from violating any of...
Any employer or person who: (1) Directly or indirectly in any way, distributes, delivers or causes to be distributed or delivered, or sells or causes to be sold, articles or materials for...
If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of such provision to other persons or...
Nothing in this act shall be held to prevent the employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person for the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing any articles of wearing apparel for...
This act shall take effect ninety days after its adoption; except sections seven (a), (b) and (c), section eight, and section sixteen (c) which shall take effect immediately, and except that the...
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. There is growing concern over the increasing number of people working for employers in certain segments of the apparel industry under conditions which...
As used in this act: a. Apparel industry means the making, cutting, sewing, finishing, assembling, pressing or otherwise producing of apparel, designed or intended to be worn by any individual...
a. No manufacturer or contractor shall engage in the apparel industry in this State unless the manufacturer or contractor is registered as a manufacturer or contractor with the department, in...
The commissioner shall establish, within 120 days of the effective date of this act, a Special Task Force on the Apparel Industry to enforce State labor laws affecting the employment of production...
The apparel industry unit is charged with the following duties: a. To inspect manufacturers and contractors, with respect to their production employees, for compliance with the registration...
a. Any manufacturer or contractor who has failed to comply with the registration requirements of section 3 of this act shall be deemed to have violated this act. b. Any manufacturer or contractor...
1. a. The commissioner may, in addition to seeking civil, administrative, or criminal penalties pursuant to P.L.1987, c.458 (C.34:6-144 et seq.), order the apparel industry unit to confiscate any...
The commissioner or his designee shall make public a list of all manufacturers and contractors which have been found guilty of violations of P.L.1987, c.458 (C.34:6-144 et seq.) or any other act...
Each manufacturer and contractor shall keep accurate records regarding all of its production employees during the preceding three years and make those records available to the apparel industry...
Information obtained or collected by the department pursuant to this act shall be exempt from P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.), and shall be used exclusively by the apparel industry unit in...
Two years after the effective date of this act the special task force shall issue a report on its activities. This report shall be delivered to the labor committees and appropriations committees...
The apparel industry unit shall receive training to be provided by the State in each of the areas of the State's labor laws and other applicable State laws necessary to carry out the duties and...
a. There is appropriated from the General Fund $ 350,000.00 to the Division of Workplace Standards in the Department of Labor to effectuate the purposes of this act. b. Receipts from registration...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Worker Health and Safety Act. LexisNexis (TM) Notes:
The following terms wherever used or referred to in this act shall have the following meaning: (a) Act means this act and rules and regulations promulgated hereunder. (b) Board means the...
Every employer shall furnish a place of employment which shall be reasonably safe and healthful for employees. Every employer shall install, maintain and use such employee protective devices and...
No person shall render ineffective any employee protective devices or safeguards installed or provided in compliance with the provisions of this act for the protection of the health or safety of...
The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this act, make complaints against persons violating its provisions and prosecute violations of the same. The commissioner shall have the power and...
If upon inspection the commissioner discovers a condition which exists in violation of the provisions of this act he shall be authorized to order in writing such violation to cease and to take...
Any person aggrieved by a ruling, action or order of the commissioner under this act upon application made within 15 days after written notice thereof shall be entitled to a hearing before the...
The commissioner shall make and promulgate rules and regulations reasonably necessary to implement the purposes of this act. Such rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law and...
The commissioner shall have the power and authority to require by rules and regulations promulgated hereunder that the owner of any building or structure to be erected or adapted as a place of...
Whenever accidental loss of life, or a major fire, major explosion or major structural failure shall occur at a place of employment, the employer shall report such occurrence to the bureau in the...
The commissioner is authorized to provide service and assistance to employers in carrying out their responsibilities under this act and to suggest to employers or groups of employers methods and...
There is hereby established within the Division of Labor of the Department a Bureau of Engineering and Safety, the function of which shall be, under the direction of the commissioner, to...
There is hereby established within the department the New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee. The membership, in a number not to exceed 100, shall be appointed by the commissioner and shall...
There is hereby established within the department an industrial safety board. The board shall consist of 15 members, all of whom shall be residents of the State of New Jersey; 14 appointed by the...
This act shall not in any way enlarge or diminish any right or remedy otherwise existent pursuant to the Revised Statutes of New Jersey or at common law, or increase the burden of care ordinarily...
Except as otherwise provided herein, relief from any final order, ruling, or action of the commissioner made pursuant to this act may be sought by application to the Appellate Division of the...
Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $ 25.00 nor more than $ 500.00 to be collected in a civil action by a summary proceeding under...
Revised Statutes sections 34:1-29 through 34:1-33; 34:1-37; 34:6-1 through 34:6-47; 34:6-48 through 34:6-67.1; 34:6-99 through 34:6-104; and 34:6-137 through 34:6-143 are hereby repealed;...
If any section, clause or phrase of this act is held unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this act. ...
This act is not intended to apply and shall not apply to the following: (a) Places of employment under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Government with respect to the health and safety of...
The commissioner shall have the power and authority to grant exceptions from the literal requirements of rules and regulations promulgated under this act. Such exception shall be granted in any...
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey Public Employees' Occupational Safety and Health Act. ...
The Legislature finds that the safety and health of public employees in the workplace is of primary public concern. Personal injuries and illnesses arising out of work situations result not only...
As used in this act: a. Advisory board means the Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board created by section 4 of this act. b. Commissioner means the Commissioner of...
There is created a Public Employees' Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board to assist the commissioner in establishing standards for the occupational safety and health of public employees....
The commissioner shall, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner of Community Affairs and the advisory board, promulgate a plan for the development and enforcement of...
a. The commissioner shall provide for the adoption of all applicable occupational health and safety standards, amendments or changes adopted or recognized by the secretary under the authority of...
The commissioner, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and the Commissioner of Community Affairs and with the advice of the advisory board, shall: a. Provide for a method of encouraging...
The commissioner shall, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services and the Commissioner of Community Affairs and with the advice of the advisory board, promulgate all...
a. Any employer may apply to the commissioner for a temporary order granting a variance from a standard or any provision thereof promulgated under this act. A temporary order shall be granted only...
In accordance with the regulations which shall be adopted by the commissioner, each employer shall make, keep, preserve and make available the following records to the commissioner and the...
a. If the commissioner determines that an employer has violated a provision of this act, or a safety standard or regulation promulgated under this act, if the commissioner receives a certification...
a. There is established an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission within the Department of Labor to hear appeals regarding orders to comply and penalties issued under this act. The...
Any appeal from a decision of the review commission shall be to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court. ...
The Attorney General, at the request of and on behalf of the commissioner, may bring an action in the Superior Court to restrain any conditions or practices in any workplace which the commissioner...
a. No person shall discharge, or otherwise discipline, or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any...
The Commissioner of Labor, the Commissioner of Community Affairs and the Commissioner of Health shall serve in an advisory capacity to the New Jersey Commission of Capital Budgeting and Planning...
Nothing in this act shall be deemed to give public employees the right to strike over occupational safety and health issues. ...
Except as provided in section 6 of P.L.1983, c.516 (C.34:6A-30), nothing in this act shall be deemed to conflict with or supersede any provision of the State Uniform Construction Code Act,...
a. Not later than December 31 of the first full calendar year following the effective date of this 1995 amendatory and supplementary act and not later than December 31 of each subsequent year, the...
Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect any applicable laws, rules or workplace policies concerning smoking or the use of other tobacco products during the course of employment. ...
Upon a violation of any provision of this act, an aggrieved person may, in addition to any other available remedy, institute civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction, within one year from...
Any employer who violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $ 2,000 for the first violation and $ 5,000 for each subsequent violation,...
No unlicensed person shall operate a steam generator, similar equipment potentially capable of generating steam having relief devices set over 15 psig. and rated at or developing over 6 boiler...
Application for license shall be made on forms to be provided for that purpose by the mechanical inspection bureau and shall state clearly the name, residence, age and qualifying experience of the...
Every applicant qualifying for a license who is not a citizen of the United States but who officially declared his intention of becoming a citizen shall be issued a license and shall be entitled...
Each application for examination for any license issued by the bureau shall be accompanied by fees as set forth in this section. Such fees shall be made payable to the Commissioner of Labor. There...
The form of license shall be such as the commissioner shall approve. ...
Every engineer and fireman licensed under this chapter shall, while in charge of or operating any equipment described in section 34:7-1, produce all licenses and equipment inspection certificates...
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $ 50 nor more than $ 500, to be collected by suit or compromise. An officer of a...
The Superior Court and municipal court shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for the collection and enforcement of a penalty imposed because of the violation of any provision of this article. The...
All proceedings brought for a violation of this article shall be brought in the name of the commissioner as plaintiff. Process shall be either a summons or warrant and shall issue only at the...
If after issuance of execution against any person convicted of violating this article, sufficient goods and chattels be not found to satisfy the execution, the court shall commit the defendant to...
a. All steam or hot water boilers or similar equipment potentially capable of generating steam, except steam boilers having adequate relief devices set to discharge at a pressure not greater than...
a. For each internal and external inspection of vessels specified in subsection a. of R.S. 34:7-14, which shall include hydrostatic test if found necessary, the owner, lessee or operator of the...
In addition to the annual internal and external inspection, there may be an external inspection if found necessary of each vessel specified in subsection a. of R.S. 34:7-14, which shall be made as...
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the commissioner, additional inspections may be made of vessels specified in section 34:7-14a. of this Title, which shall be paid for in accordance with...
The commissioner may make such rules and regulations covering the manner of conducting inspections, the method of collecting fees, the settlement of accounts and payment of money on the part of...
The owner of any vessel specified in section 34:7-14 of this Title shall within 30 days after service on him of written notice so to do, furnish to the commissioner a report of an inspection made...
If after inspection it is found that any vessel specified in section 34:7-14 of this Title is unfit for use the inspector shall order its use to be discontinued until properly repaired or...
The owner or operator of any vessel specified in section 34:7-14 of this Title, dissatisfied with the result of any inspection may appeal to the commissioner by mail. Upon receipt of the appeal,...
No steam boiler, pressure vessel or refrigeration system shall be sold, installed or used in this State unless it conforms to such rules, regulations and standards as are from time to time adopted...
Upon payment of inspection fees and filing of inspection report, the commissioner shall deliver evidence of approval to the owner or operator of any vessel passing inspection. ...
All refrigeration systems using flammable or toxic refrigerants of over three tons of refrigerating capacity or requiring over six driving horsepower, and all refrigeration systems using...
As used in this act: Accepting employment means that a job seeker has entered into an agreement with an employer which includes: (1) The terms and conditions of employment; (2) The salary or...
In addition to any other procedure, condition or information required by this act: a. Every applicant shall file a disclosure statement with the chief stating whether or not the applicant has been...
a. The provisions of this act shall apply to any person engaging in any of the activities regulated by this act including persons whose residence or principal place of business is located outside...
a. Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, an employment agency required to be licensed pursuant to P.L. 1989, c. 331 (C.34:8-43 et seq.), or any other firm, company,...
The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt...
The provisions of this act shall not apply to: a. A teachers' registry conducted by an association of certified teachers, whose membership is not less than 10 certified teachers, incorporated as a...
a. An application for an employment agency license required by this act shall be made in writing to the chief in the form prescribed by the director. The application shall state the complete...
a. An application for an agent's license shall state the name and address of the applicant and any other name used by the applicant in the last six years, the name of the holder of the employment...
a. Before an employment agency license is issued, the applicant shall post with the director a bond in the amount of $ 10,000, with a duly authorized surety company as surety, to be approved by...
Any license issued in accordance with this act shall be issued upon an annual basis. The fees therefor shall be nonrefundable and shall be charged as follows:
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-51. Requirements
a. Every employment agency shall: (1) Keep and make available to the chief, or a designee, during regular business hours, records containing information regarding services provided, products sold...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-52. Violations
It shall be a violation of the provisions of this act for any person to: a. Open, conduct, or maintain, either directly or indirectly, an employment agency or perform any of the functions of an...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-53. Refusal or revocation; suspension; renewal
The director may refuse to issue, and may revoke, any license for failure to comply with, or violation of, the provisions of this act or for any other good cause shown, within the meaning and...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-54. Powers of director
To accomplish the objectives and carry out the duties prescribed by this act, the director may issue subpoenas to any person, administer an oath or affirmation to any person, conduct hearings in...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-55. Investigation
Whenever it appears to the director that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice declared to be unlawful by this act, or whenever the director believes it...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-56. Service of notice or subpoena
Service by the director of any notice requiring a person to file a statement or report, or of a subpoena upon the person, shall be made personally within this State, but if this cannot be done,...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-57. Order from Superior Court
If a person fails or refuses to file any statement or report requested by the director, or obey any subpoena issued by the director, the director may seek and obtain an order from the Superior...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-58. Injunction; other court actions
a. Whenever it appears to the director that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice which is a violation of the provisions of this act, the director may...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-59. Action authorized after finding of violation
Whenever it appears to the director that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice which is a violation of the provisions of this act, the director may hold...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-60. Penalties for violation of cease and desist order
Whenever it appears to the director that a person against whom a cease and desist order has been entered has violated the order, the director may bring a summary proceeding in the Superior Court...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-61. Additional penalties
In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be liable for a penalty of not more than $ 2,000 for the first offense and not more...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-62. Director to recover attorneys' fees and costs
In any action or proceeding brought under this act the director may recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of investigation and suit. ...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-63. Certificate of indebtedness to clerk
Upon the failure of a person to comply within 10 days after service of any order of the director directing payment of penalties, costs, attorneys' fees, reimbursement, or restoration of moneys or...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-64. Registration of consulting firm; revocation; suspension
a. Every consulting firm operating within this State shall, within 60 days following the effective date of this act and annually thereafter, register in writing with the chief on a form prescribed...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-66. Registration of prepaid computer job matching service or job listing service; annual fee; bond; contract; refund conditions; violations
a. Every prepaid computer job matching service or job listing service operating or providing services or products within this State shall, within 60 days following the effective date of this act...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-67. Definitions relating to employee leasing companies
For the purposes of this act [34:8-67 -- 34:8-78]: Client company means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or other business entity, which enters into an employee leasing agreement...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-68. Provisions of leasing agreements
a. Every employee leasing agreement shall provide that the employee leasing company: (1) Reserves a right of direction and control over each covered employee assigned to the client company's...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-69. Relationship between leasing company and client company
The employee leasing company and the client company shall not be owned or controlled by the same interests or be a part of a controlled group of corporations as that term is defined in section...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-70. Registration of leasing company
a. An employee leasing company shall register with the commissioner and provide a list of its client companies, both upon the initial registration of the employee leasing company, and thereafter,...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-71. Registration and annual reporting
a. Every initial registration and subsequent annual reporting shall be accompanied by a reviewed financial statement prepared by an independent certified public accountant in accordance with...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-72. Co-employment of covered employees
a. An employee leasing company registered under this act and the respective client companies with which it has entered into employee leasing agreements shall be the co-employers of their covered...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-73. Actions upon entry and dissolution of leasing agreement
a. Upon entering into the employee leasing agreement: (1) If the employee leasing company acquires the client company's total workforce, the employee leasing company shall report wages and pay...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-75. Inapplicability to temporary help service firms and unit operating as cooperative
a. The provisions of this act shall not apply to temporary help service firms, as defined in section 1 of P.L. 1989, c. 331 (C. 34:8-43), or farm labor crew leaders who are subject to P.L. 1971,...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-76. Noncompliance and rescinding of registration
a. If an employee leasing company fails to comply with any of the requirements set forth in this act [34:8-67 -- 34:8-78], the department may rescind the registration of that employee leasing...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-77. Compliance with Insurance Producer Licensing Act
Nothing in this act shall exempt an employee leasing company or any employee thereof from compliance with the provisions of P.L. 1987, c. 293 (C. 17:22A-1 et seq.) if its activities fall within...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-78. Rules and regulations
The commissioner shall, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), promulgate those rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this...
- chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES; LICENSING
- 34:8-79. Information provided to patients receiving home care services by Division of Consumer Affairs
a. The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, shall require that, no later...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-7. Definitions
As used in this act: a. Crew leader means any person who transports, recruits, supplies or hires farm or food processing laborers and who, for any money or other valuable consideration paid,...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-8. Crew leader; certificate of registration; necessity; duration; nontransferability; display; agents; responsibility of registrant
No person shall act as a crew leader, nor shall any person employ a crew leader unless he possesses a current and valid certificate of registration issued by the Department of Labor and Industry....
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-9. Requirements of applicants for certificate; rules and regulations; grounds for refusal to issue
All applicants for a crew leader certificate of registration shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the commissioner of his good character, knowledge of and experience with the labor laws...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-10. Duties of crew leader
In addition to any other responsibilities imposed by law upon the crew leader, he shall: a. Keep records of place of work, gross payments, deductions, and names and addresses of all workers to...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-10.1. Retaliatory action against worker for exercise of legal right; prohibition; presumption; liability
It shall be unlawful for any crew leader to terminate, suspend, demote, transfer, or take adverse action against any past, present or prospective seasonal farm worker in retaliation for the...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-11. Refusal to renew, revocation or suspension of certificate; hearing; notice; grounds
The commissioner may refuse to renew and may revoke or suspend any certificate of registration after a hearing upon reasonable notice if the applicant: a. Fails to comply with the provisions of...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-11.1. Duties of commissioner
The commissioner or his designated representative shall investigate and gather data with respect to matters which may aid in carrying out the provisions of this act. In any case in which a...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-12. Penalties
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act or of the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder shall be a disorderly person and upon conviction, for each violation, shall be...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-13. Violation of act; injunction; parties
Upon a violation of any of the provisions of this act, any aggrieved seasonal farm worker, the commissioner or the Attorney General are specifically authorized to institute a civil action in a...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-14. Additional penalties
In addition to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, upon notice and hearing, may impose a penalty not exceeding $ 500.00 for any violation of this act or of...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-15. Commissioner of department of labor and industry; enforcement of act; promulgation of rules and regulations
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is specifically authorized to enforce the provisions of this act and to promulgate all rules and regulations which, in his discretion, are...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-16. Agreement by employee to waive or modify rights; invalidity
Any agreement by an employee purporting to waive or to modify his rights hereunder, shall be void as contrary to public policy. ...
- chapter 8A. LABOR SUPPLIERS
- 34:8A-17. Severability
If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of such provision to other persons or...
- chapter 9. ALIENS EMPLOYED ON PUBLIC WORKS
- 34:9-1. Employment of aliens on public works forbidden; penalty
It shall be unlawful for the state or any county, municipality, board, committee, commission or officer thereof, officer, body or organization having charge of any public work or any construction,...
- chapter 9. ALIENS EMPLOYED ON PUBLIC WORKS
- 34:9-2. Resident citizens to be preferred in employment on public works
In the construction of any public work for the state, or any county, city, town, township, or borough, or other municipal corporation or any board, committee, commission or officer thereof,...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-1. Short title
This act shall be known as the Seasonal Farm Labor Act. ...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-3. Bureau of migrant labor; establishment
There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a bureau of migrant labor. ...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-4.1. Migrant labor board; abolition; transfer of functions, powers and duties
The migrant labor board is hereby abolished and all of its functions, powers and duties are vested in the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. Any rules or regulations previously approved by the...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-7. Deputy commissioner of labor; appointment
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall have the duties and exercise the powers of the bureau through such deputy commissioner of labor as he may designate. ...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-7.1. Seasonal worker defined
As used in this act seasonal worker shall mean any person who is engaged in any seasonal or temporary work. ...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-7.2. Certified Spanish language interpreters; permanent and temporary staff
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall provide for and establish in the Bureau of Migrant Labor a permanent staff of certified Spanish language interpreters and other...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-7.3. Permanent staff employment under civil service; employment and compensation of temporary staff
Interpreters and other employees for the permanent staff shall be appointed and employed by the commissioner subject to the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes. Temporary interpreters...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-9. Duties and powers of bureau
The bureau shall: (a) Enforce the provisions of article 2 of this act either directly or through interdepartmental agreements; (b) Enforce all other applicable labor laws, including, but not...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-10. Inspectional services
Each camp shall from time to time be inspected by the bureau. Inspectors shall be trained and authorized to consult with and assist camp owners and operators with respect to the requirements of...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-11. Preventive and curative public health services
The bureau through the Department of Health shall make surveys to determine the adequacy of preventive and curative health services available to occupants of migrant labor camps, and where such...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-12. Communicable diseases
For the purpose of this act the commissioner may through the State Director of Health exercise the powers of a local board or health officer with respect to communicable diseases defined by...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-13. Notice of communicable diseases; quarantine; food poisoning
It shall be the duty of the person in charge of a camp to report immediately to the local health authority the name and address of any individual in the camp known to have or suspected of having a...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-14. Construction and operation of camps; field surveys and censuses
The bureau in co-operation with the Department of Community Affairs, shall make field surveys and censuses adequate to determine the number, location and character of migrant agricultural workers,...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-16. Rules and regulations
The commissioner may make, modify and repeal rules and regulations for the interpretation and application of the provisions of this act, and, in his discretion he may temporarily suspend the...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-17. Civil penalties
In addition to any other sanctions herein or otherwise provided by law, the commissioner, upon notice and hearing, may impose a penalty not exceeding $ 500.00 for any violation of this act or of...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-18. Entry and inspection
The commissioner, his authorized officers and agents may, for the purpose of this act: (a) Enter public or private property to determine whether there exists any camp to which this article...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-19. Prohibition of violations
No person, or any agent or officer thereof, shall construct, establish, maintain, operate, or occupy, or permit the construction, establishment, maintenance, operation, occupancy or use of any...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-20. Certified labor camps; application; inspections; erection, construction or alteration
Each person employing any person to work in or at camps to which this article applies shall apply, not later than 60 days prior to the opening of any such camp in any calendar year to the bureau...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-21. Use of certificate; revocation
No person shall display any certificate issued under this article in or about any premises other than the camp for which the certificate was issued; nor shall any person advertise, represent or...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-22. Shelter; sleeping places, requirements
Every camp shall provide sleeping places in reasonably good structural condition, including adequate provision against fire hazards, so as to shelter the occupants against the elements and to...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-23. Beds or bunks
Each sleeping place shall be equipped with beds or bunks made of steel, canvas, or other sanitary material, so constructed as to afford reasonable comfort to the user, and so arranged as to allow...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-24. Air and privacy
Every sleeping place erected or constructed subsequent to the effective date of this act shall contain sufficient air space and partitions to insure an adequate supply of fresh air, and reasonable...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-25. Food preparation
Every camp shall be provided with adequate stoves or similar cooking facilities. Every tent, or structure where food is cooked, prepared or served in a camp shall be kept in a clean and sanitary...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-26. Water
(a) The occupants of each camp shall be provided a potable water supply in accordance with the following requirements: (1) Each camp shall be provided with an adequate supply of potable water...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-27. Bathing facilities
(a) Convenient and suitable bathing facilities of a reasonable nature to suit conditions, kept clean and sanitary, shall be provided for every camp. (b) The occupants of each camp erected or...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-29. Garbage and wastes
All garbage, kitchen wastes, and rubbish in camps shall be deposited in suitable covered receptacles which shall be emptied daily and the contents buried or otherwise disposed of in accordance...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-30. Milk, food and meals; sales by concessionaires
Wherever milk, food or meals are prepared, served, furnished or offered for sale in a camp by the owner, operator or concessionaire, (a) The kitchen and dining rooms shall be separated from...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-31. Responsibility
Every person, or the agent or officer thereof, employing persons to work in or at camps to which this article applies and the superintendent or overseer in charge of the work in or at such camps...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-32. Public nuisance
Any camp which does not conform to this article shall be deemed a public nuisance and if not made to conform within five days or within such longer period of time as may be allowed by the...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-33. Peace officers
For the purpose of securing the enforcement of this article the officers and agents of the commissioner shall have the authority of peace officers to make arrests, to serve any process or notice...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-34. Penalties
Any person, or the agent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of this article or of any rule or regulation duly issued under this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-35. Appropriations
There is hereby appropriated to the division for the remainder of the current fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, for the purposes of this act, the sum of...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-36. Effective dates
Sections one to seventeen, inclusive, and sections twenty, twenty-one, thirty-three and thirty-five of this act shall take effect immediately. The remaining sections of this act shall take effect...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-37. Definitions
As used in this act: (a) Farm operator means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, firm, company, or other legal entity, or any officers or agents thereof, in immediate...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-38. Furnishing drinking water and toilet facilities in fields
At any farm where seasonal farm workers labor in a field that is an unreasonable distance from central facilities, the farm operator shall provide in the working area a sufficient supply of cool,...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-39. Commissioner of department of labor and industry; enforcement of act; promulgation of rules and regulations
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is authorized to enforce this act and to promulgate all reasonable rules and regulations which, in his discretion, are necessary to carry...
- chapter 9A. MIGRANT LABOR
- 34:9A-41. Violations of act; injunction; parties
Upon a violation of this act or of any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder, any aggrieved seasonal farm worker and the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall be...
- chapter 10. WORKING HOURS
- ARTICLE 2. STREET RAILROADS AND ELEVATED RAILROADS
- 34:10-3. Twelve hours maximum day
Twelve hours' labor to be performed within twelve consecutive hours with reasonable time for meals not less than one-half hour for each shall constitute a day's labor for any employee in the...
- chapter 10. WORKING HOURS
- ARTICLE 2. STREET RAILROADS AND ELEVATED RAILROADS
- 34:10-5. Intent and purpose of law
It is the true intent and purpose of this article to limit the usual hours of labor of the employees of such railroad corporations to twelve hours actual work a day, to be performed within a...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-3. Penalty for violation; suit; limitation of action; disposition of penalties
Any railroad company which shall violate the provisions of section 34:11-2 of this title shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for each violation to be recovered in any court of...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.1. Definitions
As used in this act: a. Employer means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual, or...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.2. Time and mode of payment; paydays
Except as otherwise provided by law, every employer shall pay the full amount of wages due to his employees at least twice during each calendar month, on regular paydays designated in advance by...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.4. Withholding from wages
No employer may withhold or divert any portion of an employee's wages unless: a. The employer is required or empowered to do so by New Jersey or United States law; or b. The amounts withheld or...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.4a. Contributions withheld, diverted; conditions
In the case of contributions withheld or diverted pursuant to paragraph (8) or (9) of subsection b. of section 4 of P.L.1965, c.173 (C.34:11-4.4), the contribution shall be withheld or diverted...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.5. Death of employee
a. In the event of the death of an employee all wages due the deceased employee may, upon proper demand on the employer, be paid, in the absence of actual notice of the pendency of probate...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.6. Dissemination of information; records
Every employer shall: a. Notify his employees at the time of hiring, of the rate of pay, and of the regular payday designated by the employer in accordance with section 2 of this act. b. Notify...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.7. Agreements by employer with employee
It shall be unlawful for any employer to enter into or make any agreement with any employee for the payment of wages of any such employee otherwise than as provided in this act, except to pay...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.8. Dispute over amount of wages
a. In case of a dispute over the amount of wages, the employer shall pay, without condition and within the time set by this act, all wages, or parts thereof, conceded by him to be due, leaving to...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.10. Penalty
Any employer who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of P.L.1965, c.173 (34:11-4.1 et seq.) shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense and, upon conviction for a violation, shall...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.12. Construction of act
Nothing in this act shall be deemed to require any employer to amend, change, revise or suspend any pay practice, procedure, policy or system that is authorized or permitted under any provision of...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.13. Repeal
The following sections of the Revised Statutes are repealed: 34:11-4, 34:11-6, 34:11-7, 34:11-23, 34:11-24 and 34:11-27 to 34:11-30, inclusive. ...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-4.14. Unlawful diverting of wages
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase or have assigned to him, other than by order of court, any salary, wages, commissions, pay or other compensation for services, or any part...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-10. Commitment for failure to pay judgment
The court shall cause a defendant who refuses or neglects to pay forthwith the amount of a judgment rendered against him and the costs and charges incident thereto, to be committed to the county...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-16. Enforcement of act by department of labor
The department of labor shall enforce the provisions of this article and for that purpose the commissioner shall designate such of his employees or assistants as may be necessary. ...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-18. Forfeiture on issuing orders in payment for labor; no offset; limitations
Any employer paying its employees in store goods or merchandise or giving or issuing or authorizing to be given or issued in payment for labor, any due bills or orders contrary to any law shall...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-19. Punishment for issuing orders in payment for labor
Any person giving or issuing in payment of labor, any due bills or orders contrary to law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by fine of not more than five hundred dollars. ...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-21. Attempting to control employees in purchase of store goods unlawful
It shall not be lawful for an employer, or his agents, clerks or superintendents, owning or controlling any stores for the sale of general store goods or merchandise in connection with his...
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- 34:11-22. Penalty for attempting to control employees in purchase of store goods
Any person offending against the provisions of section 34:11-21 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars, with...
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- 34:11-24.1. Medical examinations requested by employers; imposition of cost on employees prohibited
No employer or prospective employer shall deduct from the wages of any employee or from the wages to be paid to a prospective employee any sum, or in any manner require payment of any sum from...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-24.3. Effective date
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. ...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-25. Repealed by L. 1999, c. 90, § 19, effective May 3, 1999.
[Repealed] LexisNexis (TM) Notes: TREATISES AND ANALYTICAL MATERIALS 1.
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- 34:11-26. Repealed by L. 1999, c. 90, § 19, effective May 3, 1999.
[Repealed] ...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-31. Payment of wages condition precedent to removal of employer's personal property on levy of execution or other process
No personal property, being in this state and belonging to any person, corporation or manufacturer, shall be liable to be removed by virtue of any execution, attachment or other process, unless...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-32. Procedure where personal property is removed under process without payment of wages of debtor's employees
If an officer shall by virtue of execution, attachment or other process remove any personal property from the possession or premises of any employer against whom the process is directed without...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-33. Wages for services bestowed on property of manufacturers in hands of receivers
Whenever personal property of a manufacturer, distiller, brewer or producer of manufactured articles shall come into the possession of a receiver, any employee who has bestowed labor or services...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-33.1. Income or wage tax advantages for New Jersey residents with income from other jurisdictions; legislative findings
It is hereby found that residents of this State with income taxable in the State of New York heretofore have been allowed only limited itemized deductions, as compared with residents of the State...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-33.2. Definitions
In this act, unless the context otherwise indicates, (a) Tax advantage refers to income or wage taxes, and means (1) a less inclusive definition of taxable income or wages, (2) a lower rate of...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-33.3. Authority to enter into agreement with other jurisdiction; declaration of determination
If the State Treasurer shall determine, as evidenced by a declaration filed in the office of the Secretary of State, that (a) the laws of a foreign taxing jurisdiction offer a tax advantage to...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-33.4. Furnishing of required information to other jurisdiction; powers and duties of division of taxation
If an agreement with a foreign taxing jurisdiction is in force pursuant to section 3 hereof, the Division of Taxation shall ascertain, from any source available to it, such information as may be...
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- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:11-33.5. Reimbursement for expenses incurred or paid by New Jersey; termination of agreement
An agreement under section 3, hereof, may provide for payment or reimbursement by the foreign taxing jurisdiction, if authorized by the laws of such jurisdiction, of expenses incurred or paid by...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a. Minimum wage level; establishment
It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish a minimum wage level for workers in order to safeguard their health, efficiency, and general well-being and to protect them as...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a1. Definitions
As used in this act: (a) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor. (b) Director means the director in charge of the bureau referred to in section 3 of this act. (c) Wage board means a...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a2. Bureau for administration of act; director and assistants
The commissioner shall maintain a bureau in the department to which the administration of this act, and of any minimum wage orders or regulations promulgated hereunder, shall be assigned, said...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a3. Employment at unreasonable wage declared contrary to public policy; contract or agreement void
The employment of an employee in any occupation in this State at an oppressive and unreasonable wage is hereby declared to be contrary to public policy and any contract, agreement or understanding...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a4. Minimum wage rate; exemptions
Every employer shall pay to each of his employees wages at a rate of not less than $ 5.05 per hour as of April 1, 1992 and, after January 1, 1999 the minimum hourly wage rate set by section...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a4.2. Application of act to wages under wage orders
The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a16). ...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a4.3. Date of application of act
The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a16). ...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a4.4. Date of application of L.1976, c. 88
The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a16). ...
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- 34:11-56a4.5. Application of L.1979, c. 32
The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a16). ...
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- 34:11-56a4.6. Application of L.1980, c. 182
The provisions of this act shall be applicable to wages covered by wage orders issued pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a16). ...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a5. Administrative regulations; publication; duration
For any occupation for which no wage order issued pursuant to section 17 of this act is in effect, the commissioner shall, within 6 months after the rate provided in section 5 is in effect, make...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a6. Authority of commissioner and director
The commissioner, the director and their authorized representatives shall have the authority to: (a) investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any occupation in the State; (b)...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a7. Investigation of occupation
The commissioner shall have the power, on his own motion, and it shall be his duty upon the petition of 50 or more residents of the State, to cause the director to investigate any occupation to...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a8. Appointment of wage board; report upon establishment of minimum fair wage rates
If the commissioner is of the opinion that a substantial number of employees in any occupation or occupations are receiving less than a fair wage, he shall appoint a wage board as provided in...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a9. Wage board; membership; quorum; rules and regulations; compensation
A wage board shall be composed of not more than 3 representatives of the employers in any occupation, an equal number of representatives of the employees in such occupations and not more than 3...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a10. Powers of wage board
A wage board shall have power to administer oaths and to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses, the production of all books, records, and other evidence relative to matters...
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- 34:11-56a12. Rules of evidence and procedure
The commissioner and the wage board in establishing a minimum fair wage, shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence or procedure, but may consider all relevant circumstances affecting the...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a13. Recommendations of wage board
The report of the wage board shall recommend minimum fair wage rates, on an hourly, daily or weekly basis for the employees in the occupation or occupations for which the wage board was appointed....
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a14. Submission of report of wage board
Within 60 days of its organization a wage board shall submit to the commissioner a report including its recommendations as to minimum fair wage standards for the employees in the occupation or...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a15. Acceptance or rejection of report by commissioner
On submission of the report of a wage board the commissioner shall within 10 days confer with the director and accept or reject the report. If he rejects the report, he shall resubmit the matter...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a16. Approval or disapproval of report following public hearing; effective date of wage order
Within 10 days after the hearing the commissioner shall confer with the director and approve or disapprove the report of the wage board. If the report is disapproved the commissioner may resubmit...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a18. Modification of wage order
At any time after a minimum fair wage order has been in effect for 1 year or more, the commissioner may, on his own motion, after conferring with the director, and shall, on petition of 50 or more...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a19. Additions or modifications to administrative regulations; hearing; notice
The commissioner may, from time to time after conference with the director and without reference to a wage board, propose such modifications of or additions to any administrative regulations...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a20. Records of wages and hours
Every employer of employees subject to this act shall keep a true and accurate record of the hours worked by each and the wages paid by him to each and shall furnish to the commissioner or the...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a21. Summary of act, orders, and regulations; posting
Every employer subject to any provision of this act or of any regulations or orders issued under this act shall keep a summary of this act, approved by the commissioner, and copies of any...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a24. Penalty for violation
Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has made any complaint to his employer, to the commissioner, the director or to their...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a25. Civil action by employee to recover amount of minimum wage less amount paid
If any employee is paid by an employer less than the minimum fair wage to which such employee is entitled under the provisions of this act or by virtue of a minimum fair wage order such employee...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a25.1. Limitations; commencement of action
No claim for unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime compensation, or other damages under this act shall be valid with respect to any such claim which has arisen more than 2 years prior to the...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a25.2. Defense to action
In any action or proceeding commenced prior to or on or after the date of the enactment of this act based on any act or omission prior to or on or after the date of the enactment of this act, no...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a26. Protection of right to collective bargaining
Nothing in this act shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing in order to...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a27. Partial invalidity
If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application thereof, to other persons or circumstances...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a28. Supplementation of provisions of Minimum Wage Standards Act
This act shall supplement the provisions of article 2 of chapter 11 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes. Nothing herein shall be deemed to supersede any of the provisions of said article 2 of...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a29. Short title
This act shall be known as the New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law. ...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a30. Application of act to minors
Except with respect to the minimum wage rates established by P.L.1966, c. 113, s. 5, the provisions of the New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law, P.L.1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a1 et seq.) are...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a31. Establishment of maximum work week for certain health care facility employees
It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish a maximum work week for certain hourly wage health care facility employees, beyond which the employees cannot be required to...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a32. Definitions relating to work hours for certain health care facility employees
As used in this act [34:11-56a31 -- 34:11-56a38]: Employee means an individual employed by a health care facility who is involved in direct patient care activities or clinical services and who...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a33. Excessive work shift contrary to public policy
The requirement that an employee of a health care facility accept work in excess of an agreed to, predetermined and regularly scheduled daily work shift, not to exceed 40 hours per week, except in...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a34. Health care facility employee work shift determined; exceptions voluntary
a. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no health care facility shall require an employee to accept work in excess of an agreed to, predetermined and regularly scheduled daily...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a35. Violations and sanctions
An employer who violates the provisions of this act shall be subject to the sanctions provided by law for violations of the New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law, P.L. 1966, c. 113 (C. 34:11-56a et...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a36. Construction and applicability of act
a. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to impair or negate any employer-employee collective bargaining agreement or any other employer-employee contract in effect on the effective...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a37. Collection of data relative to mandatory overtime prohibition; report
The Departments of Health and Senior Services, Human Services, and Law and Public Safety shall each collect data from all health care facilities which the respective department licenses, operates...
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- ARTICLE 2. MINIMUM WAGE
- 34:11-56a38. Rules and regulations
The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Commissioners of Human Services and Labor, shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.1. Definitions
As used in this act: a. Employee includes any person, either male or female, employed by an employer, but shall not include persons performing volunteer service for nonprofit organizations or...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.2. Discrimination in pay based on sex prohibited
No employer shall discriminate in any way in the rate or method of payment of wages to any employee because of his or her sex. A differential in pay between employees based on a reasonable factor...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.3. Enforcement of act
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall have the power and it shall be his duty to carry out and enforce the provisions of this act. ...
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- 34:11-56.4. Inspection of records; obtaining of information
The commissioner, or his authorized representative, shall have the power to enter the place of employment of any employer to inspect and copy payrolls and other employment records, to compare...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.5. Regulations, power to make
The commissioner shall have the power to issue such regulations, not inconsistent with the purpose and provisions of this act, as he deems necessary or appropriate for the efficient administration...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.7. Failure to furnish records; interference with commissioner in performance of duties
Any employer who willfully fails to furnish required records and information to the commissioner upon request, or who falsifies such records or who hinders, delays, or otherwise interferes with...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.8. Actions by or on behalf of employees; damages
If any employee, because of his or her employer's violation of the provisions of section two of this act, is discriminated against in the payment of wages, such employee may recover in a civil...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.9. Notice of alleged violation; hearing
If complaint shall be made to the commissioner, or if he shall have reason to believe that any provision of this act has been violated, he may cause notice of such alleged violation to be given to...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.10. Partial invalidity
The provisions of this act shall be construed as severable and if any part be held unconstitutional, or for any other reason invalid, the remaining parts shall not be affected thereby. ...
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- ARTICLE 2A. WAGE DISCRIMINATION
- 34:11-56.11. Effective date
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. ...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.25. Public policy
It is declared to be the public policy of this State to establish a prevailing wage level for workmen engaged in public works in order to safeguard their efficiency and general well being and to...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.26. Definitions
As used in this act: (1) Department means the Department of Labor of the State of New Jersey. (2) Locality means any political subdivision of the State, combination of the same or parts...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.27. Prevailing wage rate required in contract
Every contract in excess of the prevailing wage contract threshold amount for any public work to which any public body is a party or for public work to be done on property or premises leased or to...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.28. Specification of prevailing wage rate by craft in contract
The public body or lessor awarding any contract for public work or otherwise undertaking any public work shall ascertain from the commissioner the prevailing wage rate in the locality in which the...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.29. Record of wages paid by contractor and subcontractor
Every contractor and subcontractor shall keep an accurate record showing the name, craft or trade, and actual hourly rate of wages paid to each worker employed by him in connection with a public...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.30. Establishment of prevailing wage rate by commissioner
The commissioner shall determine the prevailing wage rate and forthwith shall establish the prevailing wage in the locality in which the public work is to be performed for each craft or trade or...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.31. Powers of commissioner
The commissioner shall have the authority to: (a) investigate and ascertain the wages of workmen employed in any public work in the State; (b) enter and inspect the place of business or employment...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.32. Posting of prevailing wage rates
Contractors and subcontractors performing public work of a public body subject to the provisions of this act shall post the prevailing wage rates for each craft and classification involved as...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.33. Statement by contractor of amounts due workers; deductions from payments to contractor; payments to workers
(a) Before final payment is made by or on behalf of any public body or before the lessor makes such payment, of any sum or sums due on a public work it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.34. Notice of failure to pay prevailing wages; protest by worker
(a) The fiscal or financial officer or any public body, or lessor, having public work performed under which any workman shall have been paid less than the prevailing wage shall forthwith notify...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.35. Penalties
Any employer who willfully hinders or delays the commissioner in the performance of his duties in the enforcement of this act, or fails to make, keep, and preserve any records as required under...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.36. Alternative sanction for payment of wages due
As an alternative to any other sanctions or in addition thereto, herein or otherwise provided by law for violation of this act, the commissioner is authorized to supervise the payment of amounts...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.37. Listing by commissioner of contractors failing to pay prevailing wages
In the event that the commissioner shall determine, after investigation, that any contractor or subcontractor has failed to pay the prevailing wage he shall thereupon list and keep on record the...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.38. Prohibition against award of contract to noncomplying contractors
The public body awarding any contract for public work, or otherwise undertaking any public work, or entering into a lease or agreement to lease pursuant to which public work is to be done, shall...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.39. Penalty for discrimination
Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any worker because the worker has made any complaint to his employer, to the public body or to the commissioner that he has...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.40. Action for recovery of full amount of prevailing wage
If any workman is paid by an employer less than the prevailing wage to which such workman is entitled under the provisions of this act such workman may recover in a civil action the full amount of...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.41. Collective bargaining; effect of act
Nothing in this act shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of workmen to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing in order to...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.42. Partial invalidity
If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application thereof, to other persons or circumstances...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.43. Rules and regulations
The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate, rescind and enforce rules and regulations as may be required for the administration and enforcement of the...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.45. Repeal of inconsistent acts
All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are inconsistent herewith. ...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.46. Effective date
This act shall take effect January 1, 1964. ...
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- ARTICLE 2B. PREVAILING WAGE ACT
- 34:11-56.47. Action for damages permitted certain by persons bidding on public contracts; conditions; definitions.
a. Any person who submits a bid directly to a public body for a contract for any public work subject to the provisions of the New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act, P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.48. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as The Public Works Contractor Registration Act. ...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.49. Legislative findings
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. There is growing concern over the increasing number of construction industry workers on public works projects laboring under conditions which violate...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.51. Registration required for contractors
No contractor shall bid on or engage in any contract for public work as defined in section 2 of P.L. 1963, c. 150 (C. 34:11-56.26) unless the contractor is registered pursuant to this act. ...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.52. Contractor to register in writing; form; requisites
a. A contractor shall register in writing with the department on a form provided by the commissioner. The form shall require the following information: (1) The name, principal business address and...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.53. Registration fees
a. The contractor shall pay an initial annual registration fee of $ 300 to the commissioner. The registration fee for the second annual registration shall be $ 300. Upon successful completion of...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.54. Issuance of certificate of registration
Upon receipt of the fee, form and documentation required by section 5 of this act [34:11-56.52], the commissioner shall issue a certificate of registration to the contractor. A registration...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.55. Registration required to submit bid
8. Contractors not performing public work on the effective date of this act shall file a registration form and submit a fee to the department before submitting a bid for a public work contract. A...
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- ARTICLE 2C. PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION
- 34:11-56.56. Violation; penalties; surety bonds
9. a. A contractor who: (1) willfully hinders or delays the commissioner in the performance of his duties in the enforcement of this act; (2) fails to make, keep, and preserve any records as...
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- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-58. Investigation of wage claims; testimony; award and judgment
The commissioner is authorized and empowered to investigate any claim for wages due an employee and in such investigation may summon the defendant, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, take...
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- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-59. Claim docketed; summons; service
An employee may file a written claim for wages against an employer in the wage collection division of the department which shall be entered in a book to be called the wage collection docket. Upon...
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- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-60. Process to run throughout state; by whom served
Process of the wage collection division shall run throughout the state. Service of process shall be made either by a constable or a process server of the department. ...
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- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-61. Commissioner may administer oaths, take testimony, etc.; process in name of commissioner
The commissioner shall have power to administer oaths, hear testimony and take or cause to be taken depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state. The summonses, subpoenas, and...
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- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-63. Appeals, procedure
From any judgment which may be obtained in the wage collection division, except such as shall be given by confession, either party may, upon filing a notice of appeal with the wage collection...
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- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-65. Evidence on appeal
Upon the trial of any appeal either party may produce any witness not produced or sworn in the court below, or any documentary evidence not offered or admitted in the court below, if otherwise...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-66. Jury trial, procedure
Nothing in this article shall prevent the claimant from instituting an action for his claim in any court of competent jurisdiction or be construed to deny or limit the right of the plaintiff or...
- chapter 11. WAGES
- ARTICLE 3. CLAIMS FOR WAGES
- 34:11-67. Fees and costs
No filing fee shall be charged by the wage collection division, for accepting a wage claim, and no advance fees shall be charged by constables making service of process on wage claims of the wage...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-1. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Construction Workers' Fringe Benefit Security Act. ...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-3. Applicable fringe benefit funds
The provisions of this act shall apply only to fringe benefit funds which are a. located within and established for the benefit of workers in this State or b. located outside of the State but...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-4. Relief for delinquent payment
a. (1) If a subcontractor is at least four weeks delinquent in the payment of fringe benefits, as certified by the trustees of the specific fringe benefit fund or by their designated...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-5. Withholding of fringe benefit funds
a. Upon receipt of the notice required by paragraph (2) of subsection a. of section 4 of this act or subsection b. of section 4 of this act, a private or public project owner shall withhold from...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-6. Release from obligation
Any private or public project owner, prime contractor or subcontractor who makes a proper payment to a fringe benefit fund or deposits the payment with the clerk of the Superior Court, in...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-7. Actions commenced by fringe benefit fund
With regard to actions commenced by a fringe benefit fund in the courts of this State, the private or public project owner shall not be named a party in such action if the total delinquent sum...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-8. Entitlement to remedies
Fringe benefit funds entitled to the remedies against a private or public project owner provided pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of this act are entitled only to those fringe benefits earned by...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-10. Responsibility for damages
If a notice filed pursuant to section 4 of this act is willfully or knowingly in excess of the amounts due the fringe benefit fund, the fund shall be responsible for any damages incurred. ...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-11. Responsibility for costs, fees
All costs and fees arising out of the procedures established in section 5 of this act shall be the responsibility of the delinquent party. Where no delinquency is determined, the costs, fees, and...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-12. Additional remedies
The remedies provided pursuant to the act shall be in addition and not in lieu of any other remedies provided under the laws of this State. ...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-13. Notification to employees on coverage for treatment of breast cancer
An employer in this State who provides coverage to his employees or their dependents for treatmnet of breast cancer shall annually and upon request of an employee at other times during the year,...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-14. Notification to employees by employers with self-funded health plans
An employer who provides a comprehensive self-funded health benefits plan to his employees or their dependents in this State shall annually, and upon request of an employee at other times during...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-15. Notification to employees of coverage for biologically-based mental illness
An employer in this State who provides health benefits coverage to his employees or their dependents for treatment of biologically-based mental illness shall annually, and upon request of an...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-16. Findings and declarations relating to notification with regard to health benefits plans
The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Many employers in this State offer health benefits coverage to their employees under a health benefits plan as an incentive to attract and retain...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-17. Notice by employer of termination or change of benefits
An employer that provides a health benefits plan as defined in section 2 of P.L. 1997, c. 192 (C. 26:2S-2) to its employees in this State shall provide, in writing, 30 days' prior notice to those...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-18. Violations and penalties
a. The Commissioner of Labor shall enforce and administer the provisions of sections 1 through 4 of this act, and the commissioner or his authorized representatives are empowered to investigate...
- chapter 11A. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' FRINGE BENEFIT SECURITY ACT
- 34:11A-19. Regulations
The Commissioner of Labor shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the provisions of sections 1...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-1. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Family Leave Act. ...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-2. Findings, declarations
The Legislature finds and declares that the number of families in the State in which both parents or a single parent is employed outside of the home has increased dramatically and continues to...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-3. Definitions
As used in this act: a. Child means a biological, adopted, or foster child, stepchild, legal ward, or child of a parent who is (1) under 18 years of age; or (2) 18 years of age or older but...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-4. Duration, frequency of family leave; payment by employer; certification; denial of leave
An employee of an employer in this State subject to the provisions of this act shall be entitled to a family leave of 12 weeks in any 24-month period upon advance notice to the employer, unless...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-5. Reduced leave schedule
An employee shall be entitled, at the option of the employee, to take this leave on a reduced leave schedule, except that: a. The employee shall not be entitled to a reduced leave schedule for a...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-6. Employees to be informed of their rights and obligations
An employer shall display conspicuous notice of its employees' rights and obligations pursuant to the provisions of this act, and use other appropriate means to keep its employees so informed. ...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-8. Continuation of health benefits during leave
a. During a leave taken under section 4 of this act, the employer shall maintain coverage under any group health insurance policy, group subscriber contract or health care plan at the level and...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-9. Withholding of rights, benefits; discharge of employee, unlawful
a. It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, the rights provided under this act or to withhold the benefits provided...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-10. Penalty for violation by employer
The penalty for an employer violating this act is, in addition to other relief or affirmative action provided by law, not more than $ 2,000.00 for the first offense and not more than $ 5,000.00...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-12. Award of attorneys' fees
In an action or complaint brought under this act, the prevailing party may be awarded reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the cost, provided however, that no attorneys' fees shall be awarded to...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-13. Family leave in addition to temporary disability benefits
Family leave granted under this act is in addition to, and shall not abridge nor conflict with, any rights pursuant to the Temporary Disability Benefits Law, P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-14. Benefits provided by collective bargaining agreement; reduction prohibited
No provision of this act shall be deemed to justify an employer in reducing employment benefits provided by the employer or required by a collective bargaining agreement which are in excess of...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-15. Reports on impact, benefits of act
a. The director shall provide reports to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly, each of which reports shall describe the actual or potential costs,...
- chapter 11B. FAMILY LEAVE ACT
- 34:11B-16. Rules, regulations
The director shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), deemed necessary for the implementation and...
- chapter 12. LABOR UNIONS
- 34:12-1. Combinations to persuade others as to employment not unlawful
It shall not be unlawful for any two or more persons to unite, combine or bind themselves by oath, covenant, agreement, alliance or otherwise, to persuade, advise or encourage, by peaceable means,...
- chapter 12. LABOR UNIONS
- 34:12-3. Employer shall not require employees to renounce membership in or refrain from joining society or brotherhood
No corporation doing business in this state shall require directly or indirectly that any individuals shall either individually or collectively, in any manner promise to renounce existing...
- chapter 12. LABOR UNIONS
- 34:12-4. Penalty
Any violation of either section 34:12-2 or section 34:12-3 of this title shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or three months' imprisonment, or both, as the court may...
- chapter 12. LABOR UNIONS
- 34:12-5. Contracts against membership in labor unions or employers' organizations void
Every contract, agreement, promise or undertaking whether written or oral, express or implied between an employer and employee or prospective employee whereby either party promises or agrees not...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-1. Appointment of arbitrators
Whenever any grievance or dispute of any nature shall arise between any employer, joint stock association, company or corporation engaged in manufacturing, hereinafter in this chapter termed...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-2. Oath of arbitrators
Each arbitrator shall, before he proceeds to the business of the arbitration, take and subscribe an oath, to be taken and subscribed before any officer authorized to administer the same,...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-3. Board to select secretary and to give notice of time and place of hearing
When the board is ready for the transaction of business, it shall select one of its number to act as secretary, whose duty it shall be, when ordered by the board, to give at least two days' notice...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-4. Subpoenas for production of books; attendance of witnesses; penalty
It shall be lawful for the clerk of any court of record within the county wherein such board of arbitrators may be, to issue subpoenas for the production of books and papers and for the attendance...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-5. Proceedings before board
Witnesses shall be examined on oath or affirmation which oath or affirmation the chairman of the board is empowered to administer. A majority of the board may provide for the examination and...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-6. Rules
The board may make and enforce rules for its government and the transaction of business before it and fix its sessions and adjournments, and shall hear and examine such proof as may be given...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-7. Decision of board; time, requisites and effect
After the matter in dispute has been fully heard, the board, or a majority thereof, shall, within five days, render a decision thereon, which decision shall be reduced to writing, signed by the...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-8. Power of board to cease on decision and report; other differences may be submitted
When the board has reached a decision and filed its report, its power shall cease, unless there may be in existence at the same time other similar grievances or disputes between the same classes...
- chapter 13. LABOR DISPUTE ARBITRATION
- 34:13-9. Board to receive no compensation; expenses
The members of the board shall not receive any compensation for their services, but the expenses of the board may be met and paid by voluntary subscriptions, which the board is hereby authorized...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-1. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act. LexisNexis (TM) Notes:
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-2. Declaration of policy
It is hereby declared as the public policy of this State that the best interests of the people of the State are served by the prevention or prompt settlement of labor disputes, both in the private...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-3. Definitions
When used in this act: (a) The term board shall mean New Jersey State Board of Mediation. (b) The term commission shall mean New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission. (c) The term...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-4. State Board of Mediation; establishment; membership
There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a board to be known as the New Jersey State Board of Mediation. The membership of such board shall consist of seven persons to...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5. Objective
It shall be the objective of the board hereby established to take such steps as will most effectively and expeditiously carry out the policy declared in section two of this act and the powers and...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.1. Establishment of division of public employment relations and division of private employment dispute settlement
There is hereby established a Division of Public Employment Relations and a Division of Private Employment Dispute Settlement. (a) The Division of Public Employment Relations shall be concerned...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.2. Public Employment Relations Commission
There is hereby established in the Division of Public Employment Relations a commission to be known as the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission. This commission, in addition to the...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.3. Employee organizations; right to form or join; collective negotiations; grievance procedures
Except as hereinafter provided, public employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal, to form, join and assist any...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.5. Representation fee in lieu of dues
a. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the majority representative and the public employer of public employees in an appropriate unit shall, where requested by the...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.6. Representation fee in lieu of dues by payroll deduction
Where a negotiated agreement is reached, pursuant to section 2 of P.L. 1979, c. 477 (C. 34:13A-5.5), or where the public employer has been ordered by the commission to institute a payroll...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.7. Discrimination between nonmembers and members on basis of payment of fee; unfair practice
Any action engaged in by a public employer, its representatives or agents, or by an employee organization, its representatives or agents, which discriminates between nonmembers who pay the said...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.8. Payment to majority representative
Payment of the representation fee in lieu of dues shall be made to the majority representative during the term of the collective negotiation agreement affecting such nonmember employees and during...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-5.9. Rules and regulations
The commission may promulgate rules or regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act. ...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-6. Powers and duties
(a) Upon its own motion, in an existing, imminent or threatened labor dispute in private employment, the board, through the Division of Private Employment Dispute Settlement, may, and, upon the...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-6.1. Priority of reorganization plan of department of labor and industry
To the extent that the reorganization plan of the Department of Labor and Industry which was submitted to the Legislature on May 11, 1972 (effective July 10, 1972) is inconsistent with, changes or...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-7. Arbitration
Whenever a controversy shall arise between an employer and his employees which is not settled either in conference between representatives of the parties or through mediation in the manner...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-8. Strikes
Nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with, impede or diminish in any way the right of private employees to strike or engage in other lawful concerted activities. ...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-10. Disqualifications
No member or officer of the board having any financial or other interest in a trade, business, industry or occupation in which a labor dispute exists or is threatened and of which the board has...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-10.1. Board members; participation; membership or employment in other agencies
No member of the board shall take any part, directly or indirectly, in any proceeding involving any relation between employees and employers before any board, bureau, commission, officer or court,...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-11. Rules
The board shall have power to adopt, alter, amend or repeal such rules in connection with the voluntary mediation of labor disputes in private employment and the commission shall have the same...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-12. Construction
Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as interfering with, impeding or diminishing in any way any right guaranteed by law or by the Constitution of the State or of the United States. ...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-13. Separability of provisions
If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall for any reason be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-14a. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Police and Fire Public Interest Arbitration Reform Act. ...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-15. Definitions
Public fire department means any department of a municipality, county, fire district or the State or any agency thereof having employees engaged in firefighting provided that such firefighting...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16. Negotiations between public fire, police department and exclusive representative; binding arbitration
a. (1) Negotiations between a public fire or police department and an exclusive representative concerning the terms and conditions of employment shall begin at least 120 days prior to the day on...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16.1. Annual continuing education program for arbitrators
The commission shall establish an annual continuing education program for the arbitrators appointed to its special panel of arbitrators. The program shall include sessions or seminars on topics...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16.2. Guidelines for determining comparability of jurisdictions
a. The commission shall promulgate guidelines for determining the comparability of jurisdictions for the purposes of paragraph (2) of subsection g. of section 3 of P.L.1977, c.85 (C.34:13A-16). b....
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16.3. Fee schedule; commission's costs
The commission may establish a fee schedule to cover the costs of effectuating the provisions of P.L.1977, c.85 (C.34:13A-14 et seq.), as amended and supplemented; provided, however, that the fees...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16.4. Biennial reports
The commission shall submit biennial reports to the Governor and the Legislature on the effects of this amendatory and supplementary act on the negotiations and settlements between local...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16.5. Rules, regulations
The commission, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-16.6. Survey of private sector wage increases
Beginning on the July 1 next following the enactment of P.L.1995, c.425 (C.34:13A-14a et al.) and each July 1 thereafter, the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission shall perform, or...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-17. Powers of arbitrator
The arbitrator may administer oaths, require the attendance of witnesses, and the production of such books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents as he may deem material to a just...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-18. Limitations on finding, opinion, order of arbitrator
The arbitrator shall not issue any finding, opinion or order regarding the issue of whether or not a public employer shall remain as a participant in the New Jersey State Health Benefits Program...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-19. Decision; enforcement; venue; effective date of award; amendment or modification
The decision of the arbitrator may be enforced at the instance of either party in the Superior Court with venue laid in the county in which the dispute arose. The commencement of a new public...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-20. Repealed by L. 1995, c. 425, § 10
LexisNexis (TM) Notes: LAW REVIEWS 1.
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-21. Change in conditions during pendency of proceedings; prohibition without consent
During the pendency of proceedings before the arbitrator, existing wages, hours and other conditions of employment shall not be changed by action of either party without the consent of the other,...
- chapter 13A. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ACT
- 34:13A-30. Employment with public employee labor organizations, certain; prohibited
During the period in which an individual, pursuant to section 504 of Pub.L.86-257 (29 U.S.C.s.504), is prohibited from serving: as a consultant or adviser to any labor organization; as an officer,...
- chapter 13B. PUBLIC UTILITY LABOR DISPUTES
- 34:13B-1. Declaration of policy
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State that heat, light, power, sanitation, transportation, communication, and water are life essentials of the people; that the possibility of labor...
- chapter 13B. PUBLIC UTILITY LABOR DISPUTES
- 34:13B-2. Collective bargaining
Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. The majority of any craft or class of employees shall have the right to determine...
- chapter 13B. PUBLIC UTILITY LABOR DISPUTES
- 34:13B-3. Additional powers to State Board of Mediation
There is hereby included in the functions of the State Board of Mediation the following responsibility: (A) The determination of who are the representatives of any given craft or class of...
- chapter 13B. PUBLIC UTILITY LABOR DISPUTES
- 34:13B-16. Definitions
(a) The term public utility shall include autobusses; bridge companies; canal companies; electric light, heat and power companies; ferries and steamboats; gas companies; pipeline companies;...
- chapter 13B. PUBLIC UTILITY LABOR DISPUTES
- 34:13B-18. Sixty-day notice of intention to strike
It shall be unlawful for any employee or representative of any craft, class or group of employees of a public utility to institute, participate in or aid in the conduct of a strike or work...
- chapter 13B. PUBLIC UTILITY LABOR DISPUTES
- 34:13B-19. Strike after seizure
After the Governor has taken or shall take possession of any plant, equipment or facility of any public utility for the use and operation by the State of New Jersey in the public interest,...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-7. Compensation by agreement; defenses; burden of proof
When employer and employee shall by agreement, either express or implied, as hereinafter provided, accept the provisions of this article compensation for personal injuries to, or for the death of,...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-7.1. Horseplay or skylarking on part of fellow employees
An accident to an employee causing his injury or death, suffered while engaged in his employment but resulting from horseplay or skylarking on the part of a fellow employee, not instigated or...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-7.2. Claim based on cardiovascular or cerebral vascular causes; preponderance of credible evidence of proof of cause by work effort
In any claim for compensation for injury or death from cardiovascular or cerebral vascular causes, the claimant shall prove by a preponderance of the credible evidence that the injury or death was...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-7.3. Worker's compensation for injury, death occurring while responding to law enforcement, public safety, medical emergency
a. For any cardiovascular or cerebrovascular injury or death which occurs to an individual covered by subsection b. of this section while that individual is engaged in a response to an emergency,...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-8. Election surrender of other remedies
Such agreement shall be a surrender by the parties thereto of their rights to any other method, form or amount of compensation or determination thereof than as provided in this article and an...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-9. Presumption as to acceptance of elective compensation provisions
Every contract of hiring made subsequent to the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall be presumed to have been made with reference to the provisions of this article, and...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-10. Employment of minors
In the employment of minors, this article shall be presumed to apply unless the notice be given by or to the parent or guardian of the minor. If the injured employee at the time of the accident or...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-11. Termination of contract
The contract for the operation of the provisions of this article may be terminated by either party upon sixty days' notice in writing prior to any accident. ...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12. Schedule of payments
Following is a schedule of compensation: a. For injury producing temporary disability, 70% of the worker's weekly wages received at the time of the injury, subject to a maximum compensation of 75%...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.1. Employees receiving subsistence payments from Veterans Administration; special benefits
Any employee receiving subsistence payments from the Veterans Administration of the Federal Government under the Act of Congress of June twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four,...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.2. Fund from which special benefit payable
Any such employee shall be entitled to receive a special benefit payable from the fund provided for by sections 34:15-94 and 34:15-95 of the Revised Statutes. ...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.3. Amount of special benefit
The amount of such special benefit shall be computed by determining the difference between the amount of the compensation for such permanent disability and any temporary disability and the amount...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.4. Application for special benefits; payment
Such special benefits shall be applied for, ordered paid, and payable in similar manner as other payments from said fund to employees are applied for, ordered paid, and payable. ...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.5. Retroactive effect
This act shall apply to accidents occurring after July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. ...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.6. Period for making application
Applications for such special benefits must be made not later than within one year from the date of the last payment of compensation to the employee. ...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-12.7. Damage to prosthetic devices, hearing aids, artificial members; dental appliances or eyeglasses; liability
Whenever as the result of an accident for which compensation is payable to any employee of any employer under article 2 of chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes, to which this act is a...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-13. Death benefits, burial expenses; computation and distribution
Except as hereinafter provided, in case of death, compensation shall be computed, but not distributed, on the following basis: a. For one dependent, 50% of wages. b. For two dependents, 55% of...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-14. Waiting period
Except as provided pursuant to R.S. 34:15-75, no compensation other than medical aid shall accrue and be payable until the employee has been disabled seven days, whether the days of disability...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-15. Medical and hospital service
The employer shall furnish to the injured worker such medical, surgical and other treatment, and hospital service as shall be necessary to cure and relieve the worker of the effects of the injury...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-15.1. Reimbursement of insurance company or others paying medical, surgical or hospital expenses
Whenever the expenses of medical, surgical or hospital services, to which the petitioner would be entitled to reimbursement if such petitioner had paid the same as provided in section 34:15-15 of...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-15.2. Hospital service; care required; expenses
Whenever hospital service is required to cure or to relieve an injured workman of the effects of the injury or to restore the functions of the injured member or organ or to provide treatment for...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-16. Compensation to run consecutively; payment for compensation, medical treatment, etc., after termination of liability
Compensation for all classes of injuries shall run consecutively, and not concurrently, except as provided in this section and in section 34:15-15 of this Title, as follows: First, medical and...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-17. Notification of employer
Unless the employer shall have actual knowledge of the occurrence of the injury, or unless the employee, or some one on his behalf, or some of the dependents, or some one on their behalf, shall...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-18. Service of notice; form; sufficiency
The notice referred to may be served personally upon the employer, or upon any agent of the employer upon whom a summons may be served in a civil action, or by sending it through the mail to the...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-19. Examination of employee as to physical condition; X-rays
After an injury, the employee, if so requested by his employer, must submit himself for physical examination and X-ray at some reasonable time and place within this state, and as often as may be...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-21. Payments in case of death; to whom made; bond
Payments in case of death; to whom made; bond. In case of death, compensation payments may be made directly to dependents of full age and on behalf of infants to the surviving parent, if any, or...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-22. Dispute; procedure; agreement no bar to determination on merits
Procedure in case of dispute shall be in accordance with article four of this chapter (section 34:15-49, et seq.). No agreement between an employee and his employer or insurance carrier for...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-23. Refusal of medical and surgical treatment by employee
Whenever it shall appear that an employer is being prejudiced by virtue of the refusal of an injured employee to accept proffered medical and surgical treatment deemed necessary by the physician...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-24. Payment of whole award in trust
At any time after the entry of the award, a sum equal to all future installments of compensation may where death or the nature of the injury renders the amount of future payments certain, by leave...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-25. Commutation of award
Compensation may be commuted by the bureau at its present value, when discounted at five per centum (5%) simple interest, upon application of either party, with due notice to the other, if it...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-26. Counsel fees
When any proceedings have been taken under the provisions of article two of this chapter, the bureau or the Superior Court shall, as a part of the determination and order, either for payment or...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-27. Modification of agreement; review of award, determination, rule for judgment or order approving settlement
An agreement for compensation may be modified at any time by a subsequent agreement. A formal award, determination and rule for judgment or order approving settlement may be reviewed within 2...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-28. Interest on payments withheld
Whenever lawful compensation shall have been withheld from an injured employee or dependents for a term of three months or more following entry of a judgment, simple interest on each weekly...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-28.1. Delay or refusal in payment of temporary disability compensation; penalty
If a self-insured or uninsured employer or employer's insurance carrier, having actual knowledge of the occurrence of the injury, or having received notice thereof such that temporary disability...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-29. Compensation preferential lien; claim not assignable; set offs
The right of compensation granted by this chapter shall have the same preference against the assets of the employer as is now or may hereafter be allowed by law for a claim for unpaid wages for...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-30. Occupational disease; compensation for death or injury; exception
When employer and employee have accepted the provisions of this article as aforesaid, compensation for personal injuries to or for death of such employee by any compensable occupational disease...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-32. Occupational disease; determining disability and amount of compensation
The compensation payable for death or disability total in character and permanent in quality resulting from an occupational disease shall be the same in amount and duration and shall be payable in...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-33. Notice to employer or insurance carrier of occupational disease
Unless the employer during the continuance of the employment shall have actual knowledge that the employee has contracted a compensable occupational disease, or unless the employee or someone on...
- chapter 15. WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- ARTICLE 2. COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS, ETC.
- 34:15-33.2. Effective date
This act shall take effect on January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-1. Definitions
As used in this title: Commissioner means the commissioner of labor. Deputy commissioner means the several deputy commissioners of labor except in chapter 15 of this title ( 34:15-1 et seq.),...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-2. Department continued; organization
The department of labor, hereinafter in this title referred to as the department , organized by an act entitled An act to reorganize the department of labor; to provide for the execution of its...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-3. Principal office
The department shall have its principal office in Trenton. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-4. Commissioner; appointment, term and salary
The commissioner shall be a citizen and resident of this state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. He shall hold his office for the term of five years and...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5. Duties of commissioner; assignment of duties to bureaus; supervision over deputies and inspectors
The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department. All powers and duties vested in and devolved upon the commissioner or the department shall be exercised and...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5.1. Annual determination of resort municipalities
The Department of Labor shall annually determine which municipalities qualify as resort municipalities and determine and certify the annual mean population of resort municipalities. This...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5.2. Annual mean population of resort municipalities
As used in this act: Annual mean population means for each resort municipality the following: 12P + 3SP AMP =................. 12 where AMP equals Annual Mean Population P equals Population SP...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5.3. Estimated seasonal population of resort municipalities
a. The seasonal population of each resort municipality shall be estimated by the Department of Labor by taking into account such factors as it deems advisable and appropriate to determine such...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-6. Inspections; enforcement districts
The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this title and exercise supervision and control over the deputy commissioners, bureau chiefs and all inspectors, and shall, as often as is...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-7. Inspectors graded
Inspectors shall be classified into four grades which shall be designated respectively first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade. Inspectors of each grade shall receive such...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-8. Inspectors; duties
Inspectors shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall direct. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-9. Personnel; employment; assignment and transfers; salaries
The commissioner shall be the appointing authority of the department and shall in accordance with the civil service laws employ such inspectors, clerks, stenographers and other personnel as he may...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-10. Additional personnel
The commissioner may employ additional inspectors, expert investigators or advisers for such period as he shall consider necessary and at such compensation as shall be fixed by him or otherwise...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-12. Badges and certificates of authority
The deputy commissioners, chief inspectors and inspectors shall be provided with certificates of authority by the secretary of state, which shall be exhibited on demand by the person in charge of...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-13. Oaths and affidavits; authority to administer
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this title. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-14. Inspectors not to engage in other business; hours of labor
No inspector shall engage in any business, occupation or employment during his term of office that will in any way interfere with or prevent his full and faithful performance of his duties. Each...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-15. Inspections and reports
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter and inspect all places and establishments regulated or affected by this title and each...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-16. Obstructing or impersonating officers; penalty
No person shall obstruct, hinder or delay, or interfere with, by force or otherwise, the performance of any duty under the provisions of this title by the commissioner or by any of the deputy...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-18. Prosecutions for violations
The commissioner shall prosecute violations of the provisions of this title in any court of competent jurisdiction. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-1. Definitions
As used in this title: Commissioner means the commissioner of labor. Deputy commissioner means the several deputy commissioners of labor except in chapter 15 of this title ( 34:15-1 et seq.),...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-2. Department continued; organization
The department of labor, hereinafter in this title referred to as the department , organized by an act entitled An act to reorganize the department of labor; to provide for the execution of its...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-3. Principal office
The department shall have its principal office in Trenton. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-4. Commissioner; appointment, term and salary
The commissioner shall be a citizen and resident of this state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. He shall hold his office for the term of five years and...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5. Duties of commissioner; assignment of duties to bureaus; supervision over deputies and inspectors
The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department. All powers and duties vested in and devolved upon the commissioner or the department shall be exercised and...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5.1. Annual determination of resort municipalities
The Department of Labor shall annually determine which municipalities qualify as resort municipalities and determine and certify the annual mean population of resort municipalities. This...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5.2. Annual mean population of resort municipalities
As used in this act: Annual mean population means for each resort municipality the following: 12P + 3SP AMP =................. 12 where AMP equals Annual Mean Population P equals Population SP...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-5.3. Estimated seasonal population of resort municipalities
a. The seasonal population of each resort municipality shall be estimated by the Department of Labor by taking into account such factors as it deems advisable and appropriate to determine such...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-6. Inspections; enforcement districts
The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this title and exercise supervision and control over the deputy commissioners, bureau chiefs and all inspectors, and shall, as often as is...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-8. Inspectors; duties
Inspectors shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall direct. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-10. Additional personnel
The commissioner may employ additional inspectors, expert investigators or advisers for such period as he shall consider necessary and at such compensation as shall be fixed by him or otherwise...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-12. Badges and certificates of authority
The deputy commissioners, chief inspectors and inspectors shall be provided with certificates of authority by the secretary of state, which shall be exhibited on demand by the person in charge of...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-13. Oaths and affidavits; authority to administer
The commissioner, deputy commissioners and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this title. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-14. Inspectors not to engage in other business; hours of labor
No inspector shall engage in any business, occupation or employment during his term of office that will in any way interfere with or prevent his full and faithful performance of his duties. Each...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-16. Obstructing or impersonating officers; penalty
No person shall obstruct, hinder or delay, or interfere with, by force or otherwise, the performance of any duty under the provisions of this title by the commissioner or by any of the deputy...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-17. Minors; reports to school officers
Each inspector shall note in writing the names of minors discharged from any employment and within twenty-four hours thereafter shall send or deliver a list of such minors with their names in...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-18. Prosecutions for violations
The commissioner shall prosecute violations of the provisions of this title in any court of competent jurisdiction. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-19. Report to governor
The commissioner shall, on or before October thirty-first in each year, make report to the governor of the work of the department. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-20. Rules, regulations and orders
The commissioner may make and publish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as he shall deem necessary to enforce the provisions of this title. Whenever any condition is found to exist...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-23. Fees for approval of plans, specifications, buildings, or new work; computation; disposition
The commissioner may charge a fee of not less than $ 15.00 nor more than $ 1,000.00 for issuing a certificate of approval of any plans or specifications, or both, required by law or regulation of...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-24. Fees for blue prints and publications
The commissioner may charge a reasonable fee for blue prints, literature and publications issued by the department. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 34:1-25. Moneys paid to state treasurer
Fees and moneys collected by the commissioner under the provisions of this title shall be paid by him to the state treasurer. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-38.2. Powers and duties of examining board
The examining board of the mechanical inspection bureau shall administer the licensing of engineers and firemen and the inspection of boilers, pressure vessels and refrigeration plants. The...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-40. Prescription of duties and adoption of rules and regulations by commissioner; conduct of examinations; issuance of licenses
The commissioner shall prescribe the duties of and adopt all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws for the operation of the mechanical inspection bureau not inconsistent with law, and shall...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-41. Expenses of members of mechanical inspection bureau
Each member of the mechanical inspection bureau shall be paid his necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-44. Inspectors; eligibility and qualifications; certificate
Any citizen of the State having had at least 5 years' experience as engineer in the maintenance and operation of steam boilers, or as boiler maker, or as inspector for an insurance company...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-47. Board of boiler, pressure vessel and refrigeration rules; composition; rules and regulations
The Governor shall appoint 6 citizens of this State, 2 of whom shall be professional engineers licensed by this State, and who shall represent the following interests: one manufacturer of boilers,...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-48. Chief of bureau of statistics and records; appointment
The bureau of statistics and records shall be under the direction of a chief of bureau who shall be appointed by the commissioner. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-49. Duties of bureau in general
The bureau of statistics and records shall collect, classify and report to the legislature, on or before the last day of October in each year, statistical details relating to labor in the state...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-50. Commercial statistics and information
The annual report of the bureau shall include statistics showing the number of private firms and corporations engaged in the several industries in this state; the capital invested; amount of raw...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-51. Names of informants not to be divulged
The information secured shall be presented in the annual report by figures only; the names of persons, firms or corporations shall in no case be printed and the business of manufacturers,...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-53. Penalty for failure to report
Any owner, operator, lessee, manager or superintendent of an establishment or industry in which labor is employed within this state, who willfully neglects or refuses to make return or report as...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-54. Power of chief of bureau to examine witnesses
The chief of the bureau of statistics and records shall have power to examine witnesses under oath. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-55. Bulletins and pamphlets
The bureau of industrial statistics and records shall publish and issue from time to time bulletins and pamphlets pertaining to its work and shall perform such other duties as the commissioner...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-56. Industrial directory
The bureau of statistics and records shall continue the compilation and publication every third year, or oftener if in the judgment of the commissioner the interests of the state will be served...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-57. Workmen's compensation bureau; director; compensation
The workmen's compensation bureau shall consist of the commissioner who shall act as chairman, a director, deputy commissioners of compensation appointed by the commissioner; and such referees and...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-57.2. First director
The first director of the workmen's compensation bureau to be designated under this act shall be the deputy commissioner of compensation serving upon the effective date hereof in the capacity of...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-58. Deputy commissioner; compensation board
Any referee, who is a counselor at law duly admitted to practice by the supreme court, and who has served as a referee in the bureau for not less than two years, may at the discretion of the...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-59. Bureau of employment
The bureau of employment shall consist of a chief of bureau appointed by the commissioner and such clerks and employees as may be necessary. The commissioner may, for the purposes of the bureau,...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-60. Subdivisions of employment bureau
The department is authorized to establish such subdivisions of the bureau of employment as he may deem advisable for the following purposes: To bring together employers seeking employees and...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-61. Co-operation; advisory assistants
The commissioner is authorized to co-operate with other public employment bureaus, whether operated by voluntary, charitable or eleemosynary organizations, or by municipalities in this or other...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-62. Federal employment service; planned co-operation; custody and disbursement of funds
The bureau of employment of the New Jersey department of labor is hereby designated as the state agency which shall co-operate with the employment service of the United States department of labor...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-63. Information as to employment
The commissioner shall collect and disseminate all data as to unemployment and places offering employment in the manner most likely to enable the unemployed to secure employment. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-64. Publication of information
The commissioner in his discretion may issue such bulletins, notices, circulars or other printed matter as may be necessary in furtherance of the purposes and duties of the bureau of employment. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-65. Records of strikes
The bureau of employment and bureaus co-operating in carrying out the provisions of sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-64, 34:1-66 to 34:1-69 of this title, shall keep a record of all labor disturbances or...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-66. Migrant laborers
The bureau of employment shall assist migrant laborers in securing suitable employment, investigate their living and working conditions, and counsel them in matters of sanitation, and proper...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-67. Veterans aided
The bureau of employment shall investigate unemployment conditions affecting soldiers and sailors of the United States after their discharge from service, collect and compile data as to...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-68. Lists of sources of employment
Each office of the bureau of employment shall in co-operation with the chief executive officers of the several municipalities within its district prepare and preserve a list of all available...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69. No fees permitted
No compensation shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, for any service performed pursuant to sections 34:1-59 to 34:1-68 of this title from any person applying for employment or...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.1. Division of the deaf
There is hereby created in the Department of Labor and Industry a division to be devoted to the interests of the deaf. ...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.1a. Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; membership; terms; compensation; vacancies
a. There shall be within the Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing an Advisory Council on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing which shall consist of 18 members. One representative from each of the...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.2. Director of the division of the deaf
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall appoint a competent person to have charge of such Division of the Deaf, who shall be fully conversant with the sign language of the deaf as ascertained...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.3. Duties of director
The director of such division shall collect and tabulate statistics pertaining to the deaf, their employment and welfare; shall ascertain primarily by annual review of the New Jersey job market,...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.3a. Annual report
The Director of the Division of the Deaf shall report annually to the Legislature. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, a review of the status of services to deaf persons within the...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.4. Assistants; qualifications; compensation
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall employ additional assistants who are competent and experienced in working and communicating with the deaf at such compensation as is required to...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.6. Deaf defined
The term deaf , for purposes of the Division of the Deaf and as used in this act, means those persons in whom the sense of hearing is nonfunctional for ordinary purposes of life and includes two...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.7. Legislative findings and declarations
The Legislature finds and declares that it shall be the policy of this State to secure the rights of hearing impaired persons who, because of impairment of hearing or speech, are unable to readily...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.8. Definitions
As used in this act: a. Appointing authority means the presiding judge or justice of any court, the chairman of any board, commission, or authority, the director or commissioner of any...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.9. Intermediary interpreter to assist qualified interpreter
If a qualified interpreter or the hearing impaired client states that the interpretation is not satisfactory and that an intermediary interpreter will improve the quality of interpretation, the...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.10. Qualified interpreter for hearing impaired persons' appointment; prohibition of retention in custody pending arrival
The appointing authority shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist a hearing impaired person throughout the proceedings and in preparation with counsel as follows: a. In any case before any...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.11. Positioning of interpreter
In any action or proceeding in which an interpreter is required to be appointed, the court or administrative authority may not commence proceedings until the appointed interpreter is in full view...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.13. List of qualified interpreters; maintenance
a. The State Division of the Deaf in the Department of Labor, created pursuant to P.L.1941, c. 197 (C. 34:1-69.1 et seq.) shall maintain a list of qualified interpreters and provide the list to...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.14. Oath
Every appointed interpreter before entering upon his duties, shall take an oath that he will make a true interpretation in an understandable manner to the person for whom he is appointed and that...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.15. Fees and expenses
a. An appointed interpreter shall receive a reasonable fee for his services, together with his actual expenses for travel and waiting time. b. The Supreme Court shall establish rules governing the...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.16. Waiver of right to interpreter
The right of a hearing impaired person to an interpreter shall not be waived unless the hearing impaired person requests a waiver in writing. The waiver shall be granted if the hearing impaired...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 2. BUREAUS; EXAMINING BOARD
- 34:1-69.17. Information to remain confidential and privileged
Any information that the interpreter gathers from the hearing impaired person pertaining to any proceeding then pending shall at all times remain confidential and privileged on an equal basis with...
- chapter 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- ARTICLE 3. RECOVERY OF PENALTIES
- 34:1-70. Recovery of penalties, procedure
Except as otherwise in this Title specifically provided, a proceeding for the recovery of a penalty for the violation of any provision of this Title shall be by a civil action in the name of the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-1. Department of Labor and Industry established; department defined
There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of the State Government a principal department which shall be known as the Department of Labor and Industry. As used in this act, unless the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-1.1. Change of name of department of labor and industry to department of labor
On the effective date of this act the Department of Labor and Industry established pursuant to P.L.1948, c. 446 (C. 34:1A-1 et seq.) shall be entitled and known as the Department of Labor and...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-2. Commissioner of Labor and Industry; head of department; appointment; term; salary
The administrator and head of the department shall be a commissioner, who shall be known as the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, and who shall be a person qualified by training and experience...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-3. Duties of Commissioner
The commissioner, as head of the department, shall: (a) Administer the work of the department; (b) Appoint and remove officers and other personnel employed within the department, subject to the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-4. Delegation of powers by commissioner
The commissioner may delegate to subordinate officers or employees in the department such of his powers as he may deem desirable, to be exercised under his supervision and direction, and shall, by...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-5. Divisions in Department
There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry a Division of Labor, a Division of Workmen's Compensation, and a Division of Employment Security. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-5.1. Reference to division of workmen's compensation to mean and refer to division of workers' compensation
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the division heretofore referred to as the Division of Workmen's Compensation in the Department of Labor and Industry shall be known as the Division...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-6. Powers and duties of existing Department of Labor, of Commissioner of Labor and of Unemployment Compensation Commission transferred
All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Labor, of the Commissioner of Labor, and of the respective bureaus and divisions therein, of the existing Unemployment...
- chapter fifteen of Title 34
- 34:1A-7. Division of Labor to perform duties transferred exclusive of those administered through workmen's compensation bureau and those performed under chapter fifteen of Title 34
All of the functions, powers and duties of the existing Department of Labor and of the respective bureaus and divisions therein and of the Commissioner of Labor herein transferred to the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-7.1. Orientation program to educate employers about wage and hour laws, etc.
The Division of Workplace Standards shall conduct an extensive orientation program to educate new and existing employers about wage and hour laws and, as appropriate, other laws pertaining to...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-8. Director of Division of Labor
The Division of Labor shall be under the immediate supervision of a director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to direct the work of such division. The director of such...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-10. Organization of existing Department of Labor continued; divisions constituted bureaus; deputy directors
Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the existing Department of Labor is continued as the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-12. Division of Workmen's Compensation; officials and employees in Division; director; powers and duties
The Division of Workmen's Compensation shall consist of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry who shall act as chairman, a director who shall be appointed as hereinafter provided, judges of...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-12.1. Director and each judge of compensation to be attorneys
The Director of the Division of Workmen's Compensation and each judge of compensation shall be an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-12.2. Referee, qualifications of
Any person hereafter appointed as a referee, referee, formal hearings, supervising referee, or supervising referee, formal hearings shall be an attorney-at-law of the State of New Jersey,...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-12.3. Continuation of deputy directors as judges of compensation
All persons heretofore appointed and serving as deputy directors of compensation shall continue in such appointments, as heretofore, with the title of judge of compensation. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-12.4. Director of Division of Worker's Compensation; duties
The Director of the Division of Worker's Compensation shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c.30 (C.19:31-6.4) to be...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-13. Organization of existing workmen's compensation bureau continued
Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the workmen's compensation bureau of the existing...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-14. Powers and duties of the Unemployment Compensation Commission assigned to Division of Employment Security
All of the functions, powers and duties of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, of the respective bureaus and divisions therein, and of the executive director of such commission, are hereby...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-15. Director of division of Employment Security
The division of Employment Security shall be under the immediate supervision of a director who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to direct the work of such division. The...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-15.1. Director of Division of Employment Services; duties
The Director of the Division of Employment Services shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c.30 (C.19:31-6.4) to be...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-15.2. Director of the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance; duties
The Director of the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance shall: a. cause copies of the voter registration forms furnished under subsection f. of section 16 of P.L.1974, c.30...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-16. Employment Security Council; members; appointment; term; chairman; vacancies; removal; compensation
There shall be within the Department of Labor an Employment Security Council, which shall consist of nine members, not more than five of whom shall be of the same political affiliation. Three of...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-17. Powers and duties of Employment Security Council
The Employment Security Council shall: (a) Consult and advise with the Commissioner of Labor or his designated representative with respect to the administration and operation of the unemployment...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-18. Advisory Council on Disability Benefits in Division of Employment Security; powers
There shall also be within the Division of Employment Security the Advisory Council on Disability Benefits, as established by and constituted under the Temporary Disability Benefits Law, except...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-19. Board of Review in Division of Employment Security
There shall be within the Division of Employment Security a Board of Review consisting of three members, who shall act as a final appeals board in cases of benefit disputes, including appeals from...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-20. Appeal tribunals; membership; compensation; disqualification for interest; alternates; disputed benefit claims
To hear and decide disputed benefit claims, including appeals from determinations with respect to demands by the deputy for refunds of benefits under section 43:21-16(d) of the Revised Statutes,...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-21. Organization of existing Unemployment Compensation Commission continued; divisions constituted bureaus
Except as otherwise provided herein or as may be changed pursuant to authorization contained herein or in any other law, the organization of the existing Unemployment Compensation Commission is...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-23. New Jersey State Board of Mediation transferred to Department of Labor and Industry; removal of members
The New Jersey State Board of Mediation of the existing Department of Labor and all of its functions, powers and duties are hereby transferred to the Department of Labor and Industry established...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-24. Directors of divisions; unclassified service of civil service; removal; vacancies
The director of each division in the Department of Labor and Industry shall be in the unclassified service of the civil service of the State. Any such director may be removed from office by the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-25. Appropriations transferred
All appropriations and other moneys available to become available to any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-26. Employees; transfer
Such employees of any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or transferred to the Department of Labor and...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-27. Civil service, pension and retirement rights not affected
Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person holding any office or position not abolished pursuant to the provisions of this act, of any tenure rights or of any right or protection...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-28. Files, books, records and property transferred
All files, books, papers, records, equipment and other property of any department, commission, board, office or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein assigned or...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-30. Pending actions or proceedings; orders or recommendations not affected
This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any department, commission, board, officer or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-31. Commissions and offices abolished
The Unemployment Compensation Commission, the office of executive director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, the office of director of the New Jersey State Employment Service Division...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-32. Definition of terms referred to in laws, contracts or documents
Subject to the provisions of this act: Whenever the term Commissioner of Labor occurs or any reference is made thereto in any law, contract or document, the same shall be deemed to mean or refer...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-33. Repeal
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-34. Short title
This act shall be known as, and may be cited as the Department of Labor and Industry Act of 1948. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-35. Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, except that any appointment, and any confirmation or approval of any appointment, permitted by...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-37. Personnel
The Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall appoint a person to be in charge of apprentice training in the Division of Labor in the Department of Labor and Industry. The Commissioner of Labor and...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-38. Related and supplemental instruction
Related and supplemental instruction for apprentices, co-ordination of instruction with job experience, and the selection of teachers and co-ordinators for such instruction shall be the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-39. Local, regional and State joint apprenticeship committees
Local and State joint apprenticeship committees may be approved, in any trade or group of trades, in trade areas or regions of the State by the council, whenever the apprentice training needs of...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-40. Standards for apprenticeship agreements
Standards for apprenticeship agreements may be as follows: (1) A statement of the trade or craft to be taught and the required hours for completion of apprenticeship which shall be not less than...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-41. Apprenticeship agreements
For the purposes of this act an apprenticeship agreement shall be deemed to be: (1) An individual written agreement between an employer and an apprentice, or (2) a written agreement between an...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-42. Limitation
The provisions of this act shall apply to a person, firm, corporation or craft only after such person, firm, corporation or craft has voluntarily elected to conform with its provisions. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-44. Effective date
This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-45. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Division of Travel and Tourism Act. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-46. Legislative findings and declarations
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. Increased revenues for this State and more employment opportunities for its citizens will result from the proper promotion throughout the United...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-47. Definitions
3. As used in this act, unless a different meaning appears from the context: a. Council means the New Jersey Tourism Advisory Council. b. Director means the Director of the Division of Travel...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-48. Division of travel and tourism; establishment; director
There is hereby established in the Department of Labor and Industry the Division of Travel and Tourism. The division shall be under the supervision of a director, who shall be a person qualified...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-49. Transfer of functions, power and duties of office of tourism and promotion to division of travel and tourism
All the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Tourism and Promotion in the Division of Economic Development in the Department of Labor and Industry are transferred to the Division of...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-51. New Jersey Tourism Advisory Council
a. There is created in the division the New Jersey Tourism Advisory Council which shall consist of 19 members: (1) Two members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President thereof, not more...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-52. Master plan; contents
The director, upon consultation with the council, shall develop a 10-year master plan for the growth of tourism for presentation to the Governor and the Legislature no later than February 1, 1979....
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-53. Duties of division
In the pursuance and promotion of a State policy on tourism, the division shall: a. Provide and promote adequate opportunities for county and municipal participation, Federal agency participation,...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-54. Duties of commission
The commission shall: a. Aid the division in the formulation of the 10-year master plan and the annual review thereof; b. Consider all matters referred to it by the director; and c. Make...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-55. Severability
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this act,...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-69.1. Immunity from liability for injury caused by product or invention fostered or advanced by L.1977, c. 429
The State, its offices, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies, including the Office for Promoting Technical Innovation, as well as the employees thereof, shall not be...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-69.2. Nonliability for debts, claims, obligations or judgments incurred by or asserted against party to agreements under L.1977, c. 429
The State, its offices, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions, and agencies, including the Office for Promoting Technical Innovation, as well as the employees thereof, shall not be...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-69.3. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Products, New Jobs Act of 1980. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-70. Legislative findings and declarations
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is not in the public interest for any citizens of this State to be unemployed solely because of an inability to reach a place of potential...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-71. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Jobs Transportation Demonstration Act of 1978. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-72. Demonstration projects to transport persons to job sites, interviews and training; funding
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry is hereby authorized to develop and administer a program to provide funds for demonstration projects to transport persons to job sites, job...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-73. Standards for allocation of funds
The commissioner shall establish standards for the allocation of funds pursuant to this act which standards shall: a. Be responsive to areas of high unemployment; b. Guarantee that each applicant...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-74. Authorized intra-state services
Demonstration projects funded under this act shall be limited to three basic intra-State services as follows: a. Transporting persons from employment service centers, or other centralized sites to...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-75. Rules and regulations
The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary and proper to administer the act. ...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-76. New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee; established, duties
There is established in, but not of, the Department of Labor the New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee which shall: a. Design and implement a comprehensive occupational...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-77. Members of committee, interagency agreement
The committee shall: a. Include the Commissioner of Commerce, Energy and Economic Development, as the representative of the State economic development agency; the Commissioner of Education, as the...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-78. Occupational survey
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee shall conduct, not less than once every three years, and on a Statewide basis, a comprehensive survey of occupations in the State...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-80. Occupational survey
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee shall conduct, not less than once every three years, and on a Statewide basis, a comprehensive survey of occupations in the State...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-81. Council on Undocumented Aliens established
There is established within the Department of Labor a Council on Undocumented Aliens which shall consist of 14 public members and the commissioner, ex officio, or his designee, as chair, not more...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-82. Responsibilities of council
The council shall be responsible for: a. Making a study of the undocumented alien population in this State, including, but not limited to: (1) An estimate of whether the number of undocumented...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-83. Powers of council
The council may: a. Hold public meetings or hearings within the State on any matter or matters related to the provisions of this act. b. Call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of...
- chapter 1A. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
- 34:1A-84. Report to commissioner, Legislature
Three years from the date the council first meets, the council shall submit to the commissioner and the Legislature a report summarizing its activities, findings and recommendations. Upon the...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-1. Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as The New Jersey Economic Development Authority Act. LexisNexis (TM) Notes:
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-3. Definitions
As used in the provisions of P.L. 1974, c. 80 (C. 34:1B-1 et seq.), P.L. 1979, c. 303 (C. 34:1B-5.1 et seq.), sections 50 through 54 of P.L. 2000, c. 72 (C. 34:1B-5.5 through 34:1B-5.9), P.L....
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-4. New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
4. a. There is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of the Treasury a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be known as the New Jersey Economic Development...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-4.1. Contracts to secure bonds and other obligations
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the State Treasurer are hereby authorized to enter into one or more contracts to secure, in whole or in part, any bonds, refunding bonds or...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5. Powers
The authority shall have the following powers: a. To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; b. To adopt and have a seal and to alter the same at pleasure;...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.1. Rules and regulations relating to payment of prevailing wage rate
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall adopt rules and regulations requiring that not less than the prevailing wage rate be paid to workers employed in the performance of any...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.2. Administration and enforcement of rules and regulations
The rules and regulations adopted under section 1 of this act shall provide for the proper and appropriate administration and enforcement of such regulations. ...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.4. Adoption of rules and regulations relating to establishment of affirmative action program
a. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority shall adopt rules and regulations to establish an affirmative action program for the hiring of minority workers employed in the performance of...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.5. Limitation of claims, damages, losses, liabilities and costs for school facilities projects
In the exercise of powers granted by P.L. 2000, c. 72 (C. 18A:7G-1 et al.) in connection with any school facilities project, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities or costs that the...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.6. Role of municipality relating to school facilities projects
a. No municipality shall modify or change the drawings, plans or specifications for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or improvement of any school facilities project of...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.7. Preparation of separate plans and specifications; bids
a. In undertaking any school facilities projects where the cost of construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement will exceed $ 25,000, the authority may prepare, or cause to be...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.8. Authority's powers relating to property and execution of school facilities project
a. If the authority shall find it necessary in connection with the undertaking of any school facilities project to change the location of any portion of any public highway or road, it may contract...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-5.9. Bonds deemed fully negotiable
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, any bonds issued pursuant to P.L. 2000, c. 72 (C. 18A:7G-1 et al.) shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7. Economic development fund
a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special fund called the economic development fund into which shall be deposited such moneys (1) as shall be appropriated by the State for the...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.1. Legislative findings and declarations
The Legislature finds that there continue to exist in the State's urban communities high unemployment, low levels of new capital investment, depressed living and working conditions and...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.2. Fund for community development purposes
The economic development fund established in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority under section 7 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-7) shall be a fund for community development purposes with the...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.3. Appropriations to economic development fund; use
Amounts appropriated to the economic development fund from the Community Development Bond Fund shall be used for the purpose of paying or financing the costs of projects undertaken by the New...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.4. Financing of projects; economic feasibility and recovery of costs
Financing of projects pursuant to this act shall be in such form, amount and on such terms as the authority shall believe necessary in order to assure the economic feasibility of a project and to...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.5. Projects; factors for consideration for financial assistance
With respect to projects for which costs are to be financed by the authority pursuant to this act, the authority shall in determining those projects, and in the planning and undertaking of those...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.6. Annual report
The authority shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature concerning the financing of projects undertaken, and concerning projects planned to be undertaken, pursuant to this act. The...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.7. Repayment by Economic Development Authority
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as successor to the New Jersey State Area Redevelopment Authority through the Executive Reorganization Plan filed February 27, 1978, shall repay...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.8. Funds transferred
All sums appropriated or transferred to the New Jersey Area Redevelopment Authority, except those referred to in section 1 of this act, or to the New Jersey Urban Loan Authority, from any source,...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.9. Prepayment at discount
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as successor to the New Jersey State Area Redevelopment Authority, may, after negotiation and agreement with the State Treasurer, prepay all...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.10. Short title
Sections one through ten of this act shall be known and may be cited as the Economic Recovery Fund Act. ...
- chapter 1B. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROMOTION
- 34:1B-7.11. Findings, determinations
The Legislature finds and determines that limitations on the availability of loan funds from financial institutions has seriously impeded the development and completion of many economic...
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- 34:1B-7.13. Use of moneys in fund
The authority may use the moneys in the fund to pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on bonds or notes, which shall be entitled Economic Recovery Fund Bonds or Notes, as appropriate,...
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- 34:1B-7.14. Determination of projects to be financed
With respect to projects to be financed by the authority pursuant to this act and undertaken with moneys from the Economic Recovery Fund, the authority shall in determining those projects, and in...
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- 34:1B-7.15. Payments to Economic Recovery Fund
Commencing with fiscal year 1992, the State Treasurer shall in each fiscal year pay from the General Fund to the Economic Recovery Fund, in accordance with a contract between the treasurer and the...
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- 34:1B-7.16. Contracts for implementation of payment arrangement
The State Treasurer and the authority are authorized to enter into one or more contracts to implement the payment arrangement that is provided for in section 6 of this act. The contract or...
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- 34:1B-7.17. Report to Governor, Legislature
The authority shall report six months after the effective date of this section, and annually thereafter not later than September 15, to the Governor and the Legislature concerning the financing of...
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- 34:1B-7.18. Legislative approval of certain transactions
Notice of loans, guarantees, grants or other forms of financing for projects from such funds as may be made available under subsections a. and e. of section 4 of this act shall be submitted to the...
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- 34:1B-7.19. Definitions; program authorized
a. The following words or terms as used in this section shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: Small business enterprise shall mean a...
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- 34:1B-7.20. Short title
Sections 1 through 10 of this 1993 amendatory and supplementary act shall be known and may be cited as the Public School Capital Finance Assistance Act. ...
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- 34:1B-7.21. Findings, declarations
The Legislature finds and declares that the northeastern region of the country and New Jersey, in particular, continues to be seriously affected by the national economic downturn; that public...
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- 34:1B-7.22. Definitions
As used in this act: Authority means the New Jersey Economic Development Authority established by section 4 of P.L.1974, c.80 (C.34:1B-4); Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Department...
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- 34:1B-7.23. Public School Facilities Code Compliance Loan Fund
a. The authority shall establish and maintain a special nonlapsing revolving fund to be known as the Public School Facilities Code Compliance Loan Fund, hereinafter the compliance fund, which...
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- 34:1B-7.23a. Repealed by L. 1996, c. 138, sec. 85. >